Meanings of interbree with in English

Neanderthals interbred with another species, the Denisovans, as did some of us.

The first humans to leave Africa interbred with other hominin species, such as the Neanderthals.

The Denisovans co-existed and even interbred with us.

Though the selkies have interbred with humans for generations, to keep their bloodline alive at all.

The rest all lived in towns and cities now, and each year, more and more interbred with humans.

Sinon was a halfbreed, and she guessed that he was Moth-kinden interbred with the pale-skinned Ants of Tark.

The most likely explanation was that, as the human population spilled out of Africa, the colonisers had interbred with indigenous Neanderthals.

An entirely separate kind of human existed alongside Neanderthals and our early ancestors - and even interbred with them, scientists say.

This probably indicates that the Denisovans interbred with anatomically modern humans despite the split between our lineages over a million years ago.

The Denisovans also seem to have interbred with modern humans: fragments of Denisovan DNA are found in the genomes of living Melanesians.

How they died out, and why, and to what extent they may have interbred with anatomically modern humans, is an ongoing source of debate.