The word 'interbreed' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a verb that means to breed or mate with animals or plants of a different species or variety. Example: The farmers decided to interbreed their cows with a different breed to improve the quality of their milk.
Thought experiments such as, "Can I move something from A to B without passing through the intervening space?" are tried and tested tools in the explanation of such ideas; familiarity with the trappings of Star Trek serves nicely to bring such things to life.The question of why humans cannot interbreed with Vulcans (sorry, Mr Spock) is not usefully explored in the same way.
If this independent evolution goes on long enough, the isolated populations become so different from each other that they can no longer interbreed, even if the physical barrier between them disappears.
Sometimes the escaped fish interbreed with wild fish to the detriment of the local stock.
And that provided the key Dr Kronforst used to unlock what is going on.If species cannot interbreed at all, it is hard to tell which genetic differences between them are substantial to their identities, and which are accidental.
But it provides a plausible explanation for modern humanity's failure to interbreed with its Neanderthal contemporaries, whether or not such unions would have been fertile: they just didn't fancy them.
Each population would evolve along a different course and, given the passage of sufficient time, would change so much that its members could not interbreed with creatures from the others.
Exactly why they would be unable to interbreed, though, was never explained in detail.In the 1940s Theodosius Dobzhansky, an American biologist, thought he had the answer.
Wag the dog A medical matryoshka doll Butterfly ball ReprintsThere are about 45 species of Heliconius, and the evidence suggests they have diverged recently not least because some of them can still interbreed.
It is thought that if human and chimp ancestors initially became separate species and then started to interbreed, then the hybrid males produced tended to be infertile.
So they cannot interbreed.
It can interbreed with domestic water buffalo.
