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EVERY year, when discussing questions of genetics with my classes, I am compelled to explain that the text-book uses the word hybrid in a very loose way, including heterozygous individuals of all kinds. According to this common usage, the world is full of hybrids, and all human beings are hybrids. I suggest that it would be more convenient to restrict the name hybrid to crosses between species. Crosses between variations or mutants are mongrels, but it may be better to use a more technical or international word, and I suggest “heterogene”.
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COCKERELL, T. What is a Hybrid?. Nature 122, 845 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122845e0
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