Would it be possible to produce a human / ape hybrid ?

Question

If not, why not?

A horse can mate with a donkey.

Answer 1

There's some evidence that the Soviets actually tried it several times. I mean it's not definitive but it hasn't been laughed out of court either. A number of newspapers reported on it about a year ago. The evidence was contained in an archive of recently declassfied Soviet documents. Apparently, Stalin hoping to create some kind of ultimate worker ordered one of his star scientists, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, to attempt to crossbreed people and chimps. The project failed but only after a number of tries.

Another report claims that the project was renewed under Krushchev this time using male gorillas and Asian female prisoners. The story goes like this:

"In 1974, Belgian zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans and Soviet scientist Boris F. Porchnev published a fascinating book entitled L’homme de Néanderthal est toujours vivant. This book contains the account of a Russian doctor who escaped from the Soviet concentration camps, and in 1952 or 1953 met a trusted friend of Heuvelmans. The doctor claimed that he was arrested because he refused to obey the orders from his superiors. He was to conduct artificial insemination of Oriental women by the sperm of male gorillas. The experiments were conducted in the medical department of the Soviet forced labor camps. The doctor claimed that a race of apemen was created. They were extremely strong and covered with fur, worked tirelessly in the salt mines, and grew larger than the humans—but they could not reproduce."

My gut feeling is that if it hasn't been done yet, it will be done eventually (whether religious people like it or not), and then ready or not, we're all going to have to deal with it.....

Answer 2

there is not any recorded case of this having been completed, yet on the grounds that chimps and human beings share ninety 9% of their genetic codes, it is conceivably possible, lots interior a similar way as horse+ donkey= mule. different species have been effectively go- bred including lions and tigers; family individuals canines and wolves; leopards and jaguars, etc. in spite of if, even although those animals have been able to effectively produce offspring, the hybrid offspring are continuously sterile, so the human- ape hybrid likely could be sterile additionally.

Answer 3

There are a few cromosomes that can be switched. The ape has less Cromos. than the homosapian, therefore the human dna would have to altered for it to work. Not the ape's.

Did you know that the Bobcat and Lynx are breeding a new species up here in Maine?

Answer 4

No. Not even close. The parts of the DNA strands that are different are too different.

One would not end up with a viable organism. The same is true with other possible pairs of homoloids, such as a gorilla with an orangutan or a chimpanzee.

Answer 5

u cant get hybrid of those animals which have different chromosome no.,,,,,,,,
but mule is wonder,,,,,,, becoz it is hybrid of donkey and horse,,,, though their chromosome no. is different,,,,,
mule is sterile animal

Answer 6

A human is an ape, but if you are asking if we can reproduce with a gorilla, chimp, or orangutan...then no

Answer 7

by invto . maybe just barely if you pick the closest species match. if it takes the results would be either be still born or if it lives sterile.

Answer 8

I think they already did that.. and I married him by mistake!

Answer 9

They can't,they aren't the same species.

Answer 10

Thats kinda gross honey.