7 sentences with “hybrid”

The crop grown in the South was a hybrid: Gossypium barbadense, known as Petit Gulf cotton, a mixture of Mexican, Georgia and Siamese strains.

By the time the dust settled from the revolution, the ayatollah had become the official head of state and Iran had become a hybrid democratic-theological nation: the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Meanwhile, in the countries of Central and Western Europe where the economic and political battles had finally been resolved in favour of the post-war democracy/capitalism hybrid, the social and cultural problems developed in the 1970s remain largely unresolved today.

John Platt is a General Systems theorist, an extremely non-existent profession in Argentina (a hybrid mixture of biologist with engineer and computer expert); an occupation more contemplative than practical, suspiciously similar to the Philosophy of Information (it lacks a hair and it is).

When Darwin created his theory of evolution, he did not imagine that at the end of the 20th century, the notion of mutation would be used for an aircraft. Curiously, this new hybrid specimen of aviation, named after an animal: Osprey, is considered to be a true mutation of the classic helicopter.

One compelling theory about the period between the invention of agriculture and the rise of the great cities (again, between about 8,000 and 4,000 BC) is that a hybrid agricultural-gathering lifestyle seems to have been very common in the great wetlands along the banks of the Euphrates and Tigris.

The second constant is that of computer progress, which starts with the genetic code, then invents the nervous system and the brain, then continues with spoken language, writing and the computer. What is the next milestone in information archiving and processing? Perhaps some brain/chip hybrid capable of putting Albert Einstein to shame for its imagination, and a desktop computer for its speed and memory.