#interbreeding

[vox-anglosphere]

A family of hybrid Grolar bears has been discovered in the High Arctic

[artifactsnpanic]

Discoveries about Ancient Human Evolution Win 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Svante Pääbo’s work on sequencing the DNA of Neandertals and Denisovans, which won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, revealed surprising interbreeding among human species

TLDR:  Scientists have since sequenced multiple Neandertal genomes, a Denisovan genome, and genomes from humans and animals that lived tens of thousands of years ago, Sharon Browning says, adding, “Studying these genomes has led to huge insights into human history, domestication of animals, and evolution.”

[archaeologicalnews]

Ancient molar points to interbreeding between archaic humans and Homo sapiens in Asia

An analysis of a 160,000-year-old archaic human molar fossil discovered in China offers the first morphological evidence of interbreeding between archaic humans and Homo sapiens in Asia.

The study, which appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, centers on a three-rooted lower molar—a rare trait primarily found in modern Asians—that was previously thought to have evolved after H. sapiens dispersed from Africa.

The new research points to a different evolutionary path.

"The trait's presence in the fossil suggests both that it is older than previously understood and that some modern Asian groups obtained the trait through interbreeding with a sister group of Neanderthals, the Densiovans," explains Shara Bailey, a professor of anthropology at New York University and the paper's lead author. Read more.

[sewickedthread]

Hawks’ Forbidden Love Results in a Rare Hybrid

She was a common black hawk. He was a red-shouldered hawk. They weren’t in the same genus, let alone the same species, and they normally don’t even live in the same part of the continent. But in a strange twist of fate, none of that mattered: It was love at first screech.

image: seen through branches, black hawk (larger, female) on left and red-shouldered hawk (smaller, male) on right, on a nest. 

Love will find a way?

[alphynix]

Do you think Neanderthals and Homo sapiens have been interbreeding?

We know they definitely did! There’s genetic evidence for multiple interbreeding events between about 100,000 and 40,000 years ago – roughly 20% of the total Neanderthal genome is now spread around amongst the modern human population.

Depending on your personal ancestry you might have around 1-2% Neanderthal in your DNA. The highest proportions are found in people of European and Asian descent (~2.6%), while people of sub-Saharan African descent have the lowest (as little as 0.03%).

There’s also evidence of past interbreeding with Denisovans in the Asia-Pacific region, and a third unknown hominin in the genetics of some of the indigenous peoples of Oceania.

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

The Scientific Research Notes Of S. Sunkavally (years: 2002-2011).

2406-2407.

[dr-afsaeed]

Thank ketchup, and interbreeding, for your French fries - New Study

Science, Volume 389, Issue 6760, Page 556-556, August 2025. Summary Without knowing the specific content of that page in Science, I can only offer a general summary: Science, Volume 389, Issue 6760, published in August 2025, likely contains scientific research, reviews, perspectives, or news relevant to the scientific community. Page 556 could feature a specific article or a section of a longer…

[nope5477]

There were 9 million year period in human history where humans fucked chimpanzees and had kids.