SV: [Y-Indology] MMT -- Mouse Migration Theory

[Guest guest]

I should have included the following in the quote from Steve Jones :

 

"Where the true Mus musculus ( an animal of Scandinavia and

northeastern Europe) meets its western and southern relative

Mus domesticus, as it does in a great curve from Denmark

through Germany and across the Balkans to the Black Sea, they

hybridize. Different as they are, their males and females can

mate; but the two do not merge. Just a few miles away from the

zone, their DNA patterns are distinct. Within it, the offspring

of mixed pairs are unhealthy and full of parasites, and their sons

are sterile. This is enough to save European mice from fusion."

 

-Arun Gupta