The emergence of new apex predators by hybrid speciation

The present paper discusses the possibility that rare animal interspecific hybrids may evolve into entirely new species and occupy the highest trophic level. Such hybrid speciation may have occurred in historical times and represents an evolutionary mechanism. The subject of the current study, however, is typical cases of anthropologic organisms, whose evolution was facilitated or even caused by human activity. These are typical examples of the way that human civilization changed ecological systems and affected biodiversity.