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The largest ape that ever walked the Earth, Gigantopithecus blacki, lived in what is now China and went extinct between 295,000โ215,000 years ago.
๐ Height: ~3 meters (9.8 ft)
โ๏ธ Weight: 200โ300 kg (441โ661 lbs)
๐ธ Image: Paleo-anthro sculptor Bill Munns with his Giganto reconstruction in his Los Angeles backyard.
Hypothetically humans could have "domesticated " another group of humans, and with enough drifting, cause speciation. or at least enough difference that a "domesticate domestic/labour human" would be much different than a normal human, then breed them into countless breeds.
imagine if a slaver tribe 10k years ago existed until now, and their slaves ended up domesticated...
Only reason I doubt that could happen in long term, is because slavers will sexually assault their slaves resulting in enough intermixing to stop any genetic domestication.
sorry, I'm in a long drive and just stop in the bathroom and I'm now chatting for no reason ..
Haha well that is much darker and sounds like a good premise for a science fiction / fantasy. I think star trek had a story like that. And planet of the apes / the time machine.
Crazy enough, there have been attempts to create a hybrid between an chimpanzee and a human. Luckily, none succeeded lol
that reminds me of a joke.
A lab wants to make a human chimp hybrid,. they put an ad, listing 500$ for volunteers for an experiment.
100 volunteers come in, the scientists explains them they of they accept, they'll have to have sex with a gorilla for 500$.
99 of the volunteers refuse immediately.
one accepts
on the day of the experiment the volunteer asks, those 500$ do I pay them now or after?