Could a Humanzee be realistically possible

Human/Ape hybrid? And I thought this was the Alternate History site! Try Leicester city centre any day of the week. You'll find quite a few.

On a more on-track note, you're probably talking gene splicing etc for a hybrid, however I do wonder what attributes you'd be trying to add to what. Are we talking about making smarter chimpmen or less smart humanzees?

I think the idea is to add the strength of the chimp to the intelligence of the man. Deliberately making a stupid soldier makes no sense, "subservience" be damned.
 

ingemann

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In all likelyhood a natural hybrid could be produced through artificial insemination, but the hybrid would be sterile . Anything byond that would be guess work, we don't enough about how our and chimp gene function to really know how the hybrid would be, the Liger show how weird the results could be. What we do know, is that chimps and humans interbreed (rarely) for millions of years after the species split, and our last chimp ancestor was 1,3 million years ago (likely a rare fertile hybrid at that point).
 
In all likelyhood a natural hybrid could be produced through artificial insemination, but the hybrid would be sterile . Anything byond that would be guess work, we don't enough about how our and chimp gene function to really know how the hybrid would be, the Liger show how weird the results could be. What we do know, is that chimps and humans interbreed (rarely) for millions of years after the species split, and our last chimp ancestor was 1,3 million years ago (likely a rare fertile hybrid at that point).

Again, I'd just like to say that if it were possible to simply inseminate chimp eggs with human sperm, or vice versa, somebody probably would have done that by now.
 

whitecrow

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Again, I'd just like to say that if it were possible to simply inseminate chimp eggs with human sperm, or vice versa, somebody probably would have done that by now.
Then you can, of course, provide us with evidence from scientific literature that it was in fact done?
 

ingemann

Banned
Again, I'd just like to say that if it were possible to simply inseminate chimp eggs with human sperm, or vice versa, somebody probably would have done that by now.

It have been successfull done a lot of times (that's not the hard part and have been done with a lot of species less related to humans), but we don't find out whether it's truely viable until it's also inset into a femal human or chimp, which hasn't been done.
 
It have been successfull done a lot of times (that's not the hard part and have been done with a lot of species less related to humans), but we don't find out whether it's truely viable until it's also inset into a femal human or chimp, which hasn't been done.

I'm sorry, I had to word my post ambiguously because I was posting from a computer where uploads are monitored for offensive content, and I wanted to make sure there wasn't an issue.

What I'm trying to say is that, if it could be done, you would think that somebody, at some point in human history, would have fucked a chimp and had a baby with it. But nobody has, or has even made serious allegations of this happening.
 

Rex Mundi

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I'm sorry, I had to word my post ambiguously because I was posting from a computer where uploads are monitored for offensive content, and I wanted to make sure there wasn't an issue.

What I'm trying to say is that, if it could be done, you would think that somebody, at some point in human history, would have fucked a chimp and had a baby with it. But nobody has, or has even made serious allegations of this happening.

I agree. Somebody somewhere is having sex with a chimp at this very moment.
 
The real question isn't about fucking chimps.

It's about fucking chimps without protection ;)
 
Okay, so i'm sure many of you have heard about Illya Ivanov's experiments to breed a sort of Ape-Human hybrid. Is there any way possible this could work without getting into ASB territory? I'm thinking of making a TL where Stalin is able to dominate all of Europe and threaten America with such soldiers created by ivanov. Maybe I should just make it an ASB timeline and have America develop super humans to counteract the apemen.

Would definitely be ASB, no question.

I do think it might make an interesting timeline, though. :cool:
 
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