interbreeding

How To Use interbreeding In A Sentence

• Alan Templeton, a geneticist at Washington University in St. Louis who headed the study reported in Nature, has concluded that yes, there was interbreeding between the different groups.
• The potential of disease was an even bigger threat than interbreeding, he said. Times, Sunday Times
• These differences in color are sufficient to prevent interbreeding among existing species.
• Another prediction of such a surfing model is that even a very small number of events of interbreeding can result in appreciable allele frequencies of Neandertal alleles in the present-day populations. The Volokh Conspiracy » “I, for One, Welcome My Neandertal Ancestry”
• Was there any interbreeding with Neanderthals as modern humans moved into Europe?
• Racial differences will be ironed out by interbreeding, producing a uniform race of coffee-coloured people. And a Rrrratio of Ten Females to Each Male…
• Interbreeding with domestic cats has made it difficult to know whether conservation would protect the wildcat or a crossbreed. Times, Sunday Times
• Theories have ranged from interspecies genocide to interbreeding to humans' superior communication skills, hunting technology, and social organization.
• Some zoologists believe that the differing lifestyles of polar bears and grizzlies will prevent widespread interbreeding in the wild. Times, Sunday Times
• The larger savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana africana) and the smaller forest elephant (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) are capable of interbreeding.