how would a human-chimpanzee hybrid be treated by society?

Question

I have read about the possibilty of a human-chimp hybrid being born in a zoo in the US in the first half of the 20th centruy. there was a discovery channel thing on a chimp that closely resembled humans because it could walk upright. he was proven not to be a hybird. the rumored hybrid of the early 20th century was destroyed, allegedly. would humans respect a hybrid life as much as full human.

Answer 1

Read Michael Crichton's new book "Next." It is about DNA and gene manipulation, etc. It features what you are talking about. The animal in the book resembles a young boy, so the family that takes him in gets him to attend school by telling the school he has a disease that causes him to look the way he does. It doesnt go quite as well as everyone hoped.

Answer 2

It would experience a level of fame currently known only to Bat-Boy. This, unfortunately would prove to be far crueler than any torment levied by a frenzied mob. The critter would speak, ala elephant man, "I am not an animal, I am a human being". All the while being chased by paparrazi, idealized by some, and demonized by others.

Answer 3

if it is done,it is treated as animal only because even if it is a human-chimpanzee hybrid ,we know that the chimpanzee is the ancestor of the humans.so there may not be major difference between the hybrid and the Chimpanzee

Answer 4

Humans would probably form a lynch mob and burn it at the stake. Or treat it as an outcast like anything else that is different.

Answer 5

Not well, I'm afraid.