Benefits of Hybrids

Hybridization doesn't just give us eco-friendly cars.  Allow me to explain.  Vampires are a huge craze right now, but they have their downfalls.  They are restricted to darkness and drink blood, which usually involves killing people or animals.  Bam, vampire-human hybrid [and the dirt is gone]!  Imagine this, a vampire who can not only venture into sunlight [oh look, we didn't even have to make them sparkle], but whenever they feel the taste for blood they just bite their tongue literally.  A continuous cycle of fresh blood for themselves and no killing of humans.  Now the benefits of being a vampire can truly be taken advantage of.  Another hybrid with vampires was Michael, the lycan-vampire hybrid, from Underworld: Evolution.  As you know if you've seen the movie, he gained superior strength and the advantages of both species.  That's right, movie science wins.

Another example of these benefits is the iPad, which is basically half iPod and half laptop.  Not to mention all the popular smart phones that combine touch and full keyboard phones.  Even examples not from the modern era show the benefits of hybridization.  Take some of the mythological hybrids into consideration.  Snakes and reptiles are both pretty cool animals.  Merge them (sometimes add bat wings) and you have one of the coolest animals.  But, it's obvious that if you add two cool animals together you get one super awesome beast.  Well, look at Pegasus.  Horses and birds are not the most dominate animals, but a hybrid of horse and bird creates a majestic animal worthy of fierce warriors and gods.  Even words get better with hybridization.  Hybrid words (derived from two separate languages), such as automobile and television, are things we can't live without and other hybrid words are great if you want to sound smart (e.g. bioluminescence, macroinstruction, or quadraphonic).

Being Canadian, I shouldn't leave out Marquis wheat.  This was the hybrid wheat that helped Canada grow in population and industry due to its ability to survive in many harsh conditions.  Clearly there are more benefits to hybridization than environmentally friendly cars.  One might also notice many of these examples are very old.  Hybrids are nothing new, society has just become too lazy to create a new name for hybrid (or hybrid-electric vehicles), so they've just been called hybrids.