Interbreeding

The concept of a species whose capital depends upon interbreeding is complex. ❋ Erika Nelson (2009)

Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany had previously dismissed the idea of interbreeding when he analysed Neanderthal mitochondrial ❋ Unknown (2010)

The AKC is rigorously against any kind of interbreeding, and has adopted a system of “pure” breeds that guarantees extensive amounts of destructive inbreeding will continue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In fact, recent evidence from the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome suggests interbreeding, meaning ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thus, the actual amount of interbreeding between Neandertals and modern humans may have been very limited, given that it contributed only 1 to 4% of the genome of present-day non-Africans. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The researchers found evidence of interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern Africans – supporting the theory. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though presumably, the genes will be just as prevalent in African – Americans, given the four centuries of interbreeding between African and non-African populations here. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Another prediction of such a surfing model is that even a very small number of events of interbreeding can result in appreciable allele frequencies of Neandertal alleles in the present-day populations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mattias Jakobsson, a professor of evolutionary biology at Uppsala University in Sweden, estimates that the human and Denisovan interbreeding took places between 23,000 to 45,000 years ago, LiveScience points out. ❋ Unknown (2011)

One period of interbreeding occurred around 60,000 years ago in the eastern Mediterranean, the other around 45,000 years ago in eastern Asia. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In fact, researchers can actually narrow down the location where at least some of this hanky panky happened. all non-Africans – be they from France, China or Papua New Guinea – share the same amount of Neanderthal DNA, suggesting that interbreeding occurred before those populations split. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The findings support scientists who believe there is evidence of interbreeding in fossils. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The preliminary results were encouraging, so he kept at it, selecting out the most effective strains and interbreeding them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She found that the best explanation was if there were two periods of interbreeding between modern humans and another human species – and that Neanderthals were the only likely candidate. ❋ Unknown (2010)