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Hybrids

In Our Time: Science

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How Useful Is the Term Hybrid?

i think we're generally coming down on the side of good. There's still, to some extent, this idea that species have to be kept distinctad and to some extent you don't necessarely want to mix them. I'm both in terms of hyblization, everything else, because we're losing diversity at an enormous rate. Every species tat goes extinct, and there are millions of them, is a little diverse set of genes which is no longer with us. But i think the more important loss of diversity is not through hybridization. It's through our the change in land use andand the way we, we as a species, are trashing the environment. Do

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