Recent Examples on the WebWorking sled dogs are typically outbred, or produced by pairing parent dogs that are genetically unlike, for speed and endurance.—Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2023 Let go by the millions, the altered males outnumber and outbreed their wild counterparts, and a large fraction of the following generation of mosquitoes inherits the transgene.—Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2015 Other things being equal, selfish genes should, therefore, outbreed altruistic ones.—Ian Morris, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2020 Reconstructionism drove the Quiverfull movement: God called us to have as many kids as possible to raise up a Christian nation, to outbreed the liberals and the immigrants and the Muslims.—Eve Ettinger, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020 Evidently, the herders somehow outbred or exterminated most of Europe’s original farmers.—Jared Diamond, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018 QuiverFull is based on the belief that, like pure white people, good Christians are going out of style because they are being outbred by sinners.—Michael Harriot, The Root, 17 Jan. 2018 This threat, called outbreeding depression, raises hackles amongst conservation biologists and is a primary argument against using genetic rescue more widely.—Laura Poppick, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017 This threat, called outbreeding depression, raises hackles amongst conservation biologists and is a primary argument against using genetic rescue more widely.—Laura Poppick, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017
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