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Daily Archives: 5 Jan, 2015
Hybrid speciation is for the birds (and plants, reptiles, fish, and insects)
R. A. Fisher once called hybridization ‘‘the grossest blunder in sexual preference which we can conceive of an animal making.” While there may be negative fitness consequences for an individual who mates across species boundaries, the evolutionary significance of hybridization in speciation, introgression, … Continue reading