Today, hybridization is recognized as pretty common, and many hybrids are fertile. It also is considered an important evolutionary process, which shaped the evolution of many organisms, including humans. The previous belief that hybridization is rare and is an "evolutionary dead-end" is long gone.
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Today, hybridization is recognized as pretty common, and many hybrids are fertile. It also is considered an important evolutionary process, which shaped the evolution of many organisms, including humans. The previous belief that hybridization is rare and is an "evolutionary dead-end" is long gone.