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Charles Darwin was one of the first researchers to describe hybrid vigor.
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Erik Stokstad,
Science | AAAS,
29 July 2021
His workshop has a steampunk quality—almost but not quite identical to one from the nineteen-forties—and his social life has a similar hybrid vigor.
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Burkhard Bilger,
The New Yorker,
23 Nov. 2020
The details of complementation of two alleles matter a great deal to the bottom line, and the concept of hybrid vigor has percolated out to the general public, with the more informed being cognizant of heterozygosity.
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Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
17 Nov. 2010
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Erik Stokstad,
Science | AAAS,
29 July 2021
His workshop has a steampunk quality—almost but not quite identical to one from the nineteen-forties—and his social life has a similar hybrid vigor.
—
Burkhard Bilger,
The New Yorker,
23 Nov. 2020
The details of complementation of two alleles matter a great deal to the bottom line, and the concept of hybrid vigor has percolated out to the general public, with the more informed being cognizant of heterozygosity.
—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
17 Nov. 2010
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