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Nick-Uuu t1_jbjhc1h wrote

Reply to comment by mothmvn in Is there a fertile creature with an odd number of chromosomes? by TheBloxyBloxGuy

Evolution is a complicated thing and hybridisation shouldn't be brushed off. It's quite common in more closely related animals, which leads to different results than random mutation. It's likely what you said was taught to you at one time but evolution is one of those things that's always overly simplified and it annoys most biologists I know.

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DaSaw t1_jbk1n11 wrote

Red wolves, for example, may be a stable hybrid of grey wolves and coyotes.

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lunas2525 t1_jbky25n wrote

Exactly just like guppies and Betta are very different from natural and in the case of guppies there are like 4 or 5 species that they can cross with endlers, swordtails, mollies, platty, guppies can all interbreed with some complications some hybrids are too big for the mother to birth. Eg these are not viable Platy male and guppies female... Mollies male and female guppies, endlers female to anything except endlers. Where as swap the gender and you can hybrid.

And like some one else said hybridization is not something to separate from evolution as it can give leaps towards bigger changes if they are not viable they die if they end up beneficial to survival hybrid lives to mate and join the gene pool for either a whole new species or or in the case of what we believe happened to neanderthal proto humans out bred and some hybridization occured so basically their genes got poured into the pool and the hybrids diluted down

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