Vigor

You may be thinking of the concept of "hydrid vigor". biohazard makes an excellent point - race is more a sociologic than biologic concept. Identifying one is typically based on obvious external characters of skin color and indeed one can ...

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... is correct. It is a common phenomenon that the hybrid has more attractive traits than pure individuals. Genetics calls the phenomenon hybrid vigor or heterosis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis

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... , live in Earth. I guess that bacteria are more suitable interstellar travel than Homo sapiens. Without humans the ecosystem is still full of vigor, but without microbe or green plants the ecosystem is the same as Mars. As pyramid the most important stone is in its base but not on its top. ...

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... , live in Earth. I guess that bacteria are more suitable interstellar travel than Homo sapiens. Without humans the ecosystem is still full of vigor, but without microbe or green plants the ecosystem is the same as Mars. As pyramid the most important stone is in its base but not on its top.

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... serious health problems; natty looking, perhaps, and great for shows, but not very good for the dog. Whatever happened to the praise of hybrid vigor? And the AKA has some very “interesting” ideas about genetics—or at least they used to, if they haven’t changed their policies. One of the things ...

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