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hybridization

Cultural  
  1. Producing offspring from parents of different stock.


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Hybridization is used extensively in agriculture, where new forms of hardy and disease-resistant plants are produced commercially.

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These chromosome groups, known as subgenomes, continue to evolve and interact long after the original hybridization events.

From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026

Harrison then made California a principal originator of the hybridization of Eastern and Western music.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

Their analysis revealed that almost two-thirds of breed dogs retain wolf ancestry within their nuclear genome from hybridization events that occurred around 1,000 generations ago.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025

In short, hybridization with H. melpomene went beyond simply creating a population of H. pardalinus with different wing colors—it helped birth an entirely new, separate lineage, the authors say.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 17, 2024

In 1997 Mary W Eubanks, a Duke University biologist, resuscitated the hybridization theory in a new variant.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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