Hybrids
In Our Time: Science
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Is the Hybrid a Good Thing?
i think we need to kind of switch our thinking about hybrid bad and think about hybrid as being mixing. There is, there's gean exchange and a lot of hybridization. We made up of all sorts of different things in the sequences. Youre happy if you cross people with melanomas which turn into malignant cancers. And when one fish gets mixed with another that keeps them apart for simple genetic reasons. The molecular forests are remarkably similar, really, to all those old fashioned taxonomic forests where people looked at bones and blood groups.
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