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The process of reinforcement during speciation whereby mechanisms are selected to prevent hybridization to occur. The ultimate cause of the evolution of such adaptive reproductive isolating mechanisms is that the hybrid offspring .
- introduce maladaptive alleles, which increase the likelyhood of extinction
- typically have high fitness
- reduce the evolutionary fitness of the parents
- tend to become predatory on parents