Editing Hybrid (biology) (section)

==Mythology==
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[[File:Statue of the Minotaur (Roman copy after an original by Myron) at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens on 3 April 2018.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Minotaur]] of ancient [[Greek mythology]] was (in one version of the myth) supposedly the offspring of [[Pasiphaë]] and a white bull.]]

Folk tales and myths sometimes contain mythological hybrids; the [[Minotaur]] was the offspring of a human, [[Pasiphaë]], and a white bull.<ref>{{cite web |title=Minotauros |url= http://www.theoi.com/Ther/Minotauros.html |website=Theoi |access-date=20 March 2017 |archive-date=22 March 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210322091301/https://www.theoi.com/Ther/Minotauros.html |url-status=live}}</ref> More often, they are composites of the physical attributes of two or more kinds of animals, mythical beasts, and humans, with no suggestion that they are the result of interbreeding, as in the [[centaur]] (man/horse), [[Chimera (mythology)|chimera]] (goat/lion/snake), [[hippocamp]] (fish/horse), and [[sphinx]] (woman/lion).<ref>{{cite web |title=Bestiary |url= http://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/bestiary.html |website=Theoi |access-date=20 March 2017 |archive-date=22 March 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170322030724/http://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/bestiary.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Old Testament]] mentions a first generation of half-human hybrid [[giant (mythology)|giants]], the [[Nephilim]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Kugel |first=James L. |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=y8AjDrIkBG4C |title=Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible As It Was at the Start of the Common Era |date=2009 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |isbn=9780674039766 |page=198}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Kugel |first=James L. |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=i8ppE9olz_AC |title=The Bible as It Was |date=1997 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |isbn=9780674069411 |page=110}}</ref> while the [[Biblical apocrypha|apocryphal]] [[Book of Enoch]] describes the Nephilim as the wicked sons of [[fallen angel]]s and attractive women.<ref>{{cite book |last=Boyd |first=Gregory A. |title=God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict |publisher=IVP Academic |page=177}}</ref>