been researching genetics and noticed humans and chimps are much nearer chromosomewise than many species that successfully breed hybrids so, even tho ive always heard humans cant hybrid with any nonhumans, i looked in to it and found this interesting thing.
A college buddy saw a newspaper ad (this was in the 80s) for a medical experiment project for $500. He went and it was for attempting to impregnate a chimpanzee. He thought about and said he’d be willing to do it only if: nobody ever finds out about his involvement, that the progeny (if any) be treated well, and he’d need a week to come up with the $500.
wait, he had to pay 500€?
It's a joke (I assume and hope).
Joe rogan origin story.
"It's entirely possible."
he was born in 1967 🤯
Damn, that's crazy
😛
I have a really hard time believing this is possible considering human/chimp hybrids are not already recorded as being a thing. Like every one of the people out there with the opportunity to impregnate a chimp has had the decency and restraint to not try? While at the same time treating each other as badly as we do? It must be the case that they've tried, and it just doesn't work. 1967 Chinese scientists are for sure not the first ones to consider this.
Do you have any idea how long it took me to train train that monkey how to suck my dick, without trying to peel it like a banana first?
Let's say this hybrid is possible, is there a way for it to be done ethically? If not, it seems pretty annoying that there is a way for something as huge as that to not exist purely out of sheer will basically. Maybe its not like a question of ethics and more like we aren't likely to do it until it does happen and then we just gotta ride the wave of our consequences
About 15% of the world’s population doesn’t even believe other 79% is fully human. Not sure what you expect.
The thing is not everyone agrees on where that ethical line lies.
We as humans can't even agree what is food.
We'll eat Arthropods like lobster, but not spiders?
i think some spiders are eaten
Pigs and cows, but not dogs?
Water bugs = food
Land bugs = eew
One is meat and the other is goo.
please don't screenshot a wikipedia article, or most text really
Since humans are categorized as great apes, then technically, we're already living on planet of the apes. 😛
Rare Cultural Revolution W
Maybe those scientists needed to touch grass.
I thought bonobos were closer, genetically.
The human lineage diverged from that of chimps and bonobos before chimps and bonobos diverged from each other.
I've always thought, this would work at all as Chimps have 48 chromosome pairs and humans only have 46.
"Complexities and partial sterility pertain to horse–zebra hybrids, or zorses, whose chromosomal disparity is very wide, with horses typically having 32 chromosome pairs and zebras between 16 and 23 depending on species."
Would you believe that the Chinese often over sell their scientific achievements? Well, for every 100 legitimate Chinese scientists, you'll have a batshit insane or bold face liar "scientists" that makes the headlines. I had to debunk an "invisibility cloak" that fooled my friends a few years ago.
Zheng He made it to the moon first, fite me
How do you debunk that which you cannot see?
It might create a sterile hybrid, similar to a mule. Whatever the case, explaining the result of this to another being that could understand and explaining the innate cruelty in their creation is significantly beyond me.
https://www.science.org/content/article/bonobos-join-chimps-closest-human-relatives
Article from 2012:
Chimpanzees now have to share the distinction of being our closest living relative in the animal kingdom. An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the bonobo for the first time, confirming that it shares the same percentage of its DNA with us as chimps do. The team also found some small but tantalizing differences in the genomes of the three species—differences that may explain how bonobos and chimpanzees don't look or act like us even though we share about 99% of our DNA.
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