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Hybrids

In Our Time: Science

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The Evolution of Plants and Animals Under Domestication

Dogs and wolves are examples of things that started out being the sameso. And then we change them through our own actions, says Nicolaus Mills. The first plant hybrid was made in the seventeenth century by thomas fairchild before linnaeus. But it's when you have big disturbances such as ten thousand years ago in the middle east where things began to dry up they begin to hybridize.

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