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Lots of literature ignored

Posted by blenni on 03 Sep 2011 at 15:26 GMT

Hubbs hypothesis has long since been refined: it is not the rare "species" that tends to hybridize. It is the females of the rare species with the males of the common species. See Animal Behaviour 58, 1-12 (1999) and the many articles quoting this (use Scholar Google)

Competing interests declared: I am the autor of the ignored paper.
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