The conservation of biodiversity from the genetic to the community levels is fundamental for
the continual provision of ecosystem services (ES), the benefits that ecosystems provide to …

Hybridization is widely recognized as promoting both species and phenotypic diversity.
However, its role in mammalian evolution is rarely examined. We report historical …

Hybridization as an evolutionary process has been studied in depth over the past few
decades. Research has focused on its role in sha** reproductive barriers, its adaptive …

Biologists have forever sought to understand how species arise and persist. Historically,
species that rarely interbreed, or are reproductively isolated, were considered the norm …