outbreed
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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(intr) anthropol to produce offspring through sexual relations outside a particular family or tribe
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to breed (animals that are not closely related) or (of such animals) to be bred
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Do genetically altered crops "outbreed" with wild relatives and other plants?
From Time Magazine Archive
Both Lamarckians and Weismannists, not to mention mankind in general, admit that the better adapted to its surroundings a living form may be, the more likely it is to outbreed its compeers.
From The Humour of Homer and Other Essays by Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)
In endogamous populations, such variants can occur 100 to 1,000 times as often as in more outbred populations, shortening the time and cost required to find them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Working sled dogs are typically outbred, or produced by pairing parent dogs that are genetically unlike, for speed and endurance.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2023
The “lack of any reliable evidence of mitochondrial–nuclear interaction as a cause of disease in human outbred populations”, they wrote, “provides the necessary reassurance to proceed”.
From Nature ● Sep. 22, 2015
“Bulldogs could be as outbred as mongrel dogs in the streets of Calcutta, but if they keep that phenotype, they are not going very far.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2011
In areas where there were only hunter-gatherers to begin with, those groups of hunter-gatherers who adopted food production outbred those who didn’t.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
In the case of the Savannah sparrow, such outbreeding reduced adaptation to the environment.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
"It's actually quite a hard thing to demonstrate the effects of outbreeding," Bowie emphasized.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
Thanks to this and other conservation efforts like those at the Oakland Zoo's outbreeding program and the Department of the Interior's Bison Working Group, the North American population is slowly rebounding.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2023
The due adjustment of inbreeding and outbreeding is always a difficult problem of policy for breeders of animals.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
If so, there would be a school in which the advantages of outbreeding would appear as a fact, although not explained.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
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