What do you think about Humanzee?

Question

Do you believe that people had already produced this half human and half ape creature somewhere, someplace in the world?

Oliver has 48 chromosomes that is why he is an ape, eventhough he is an ape, his DNA structure was a little tiny bit different from those normal chimpazee. Human has 46 chromosomes and ape has 48 chromosomes. In my point of view, I think Humanzee must have already created by normal people or sciences somewhere in the world. Humanzee is the trade off in intelligent for physical strenght.

Answer 1

Hm. Let's put it this way: scientists could easily produce such a creature today, if they wanted to. But I would be rather surprised if one did.

The reason for this is because scientists, more than many people, have a livelihood that depends a great deal on public sentiment. Research is very, very expensive. Generally, the most esoteric research can only be funded by whole governments, though more modest projects are sometimes bankrolled by wealthy corporations. Thus, if you do something that makes a lot of people upset and creates a lot of backlash, you are rocking not only your own boat but a lot of other scientists'.

Which isn't to say that scientists don't occasionally rock the boat. But they usually need to be able to justify doing so, if only to their board of directors, other scientists who review their work, and so on.

So while I have no doubt that many scientists could eaily whip up such a hybrid or chimera, unless there was a vastly good reason to fight back against the many who would view such a thing as an abomination, I don't think any are likely to do so.

After all, SCIENTISTS are ALREADY convinced of the close connection between humans and primates. They also have already made chimeras of (for example) humans and rabbits. So what would be the point of mixing a human and (for example) a bonobo? I can't see a one.

Nor would I wait for a non-scientist to do it, either. There are plenty of people with, shall we say, 'unusual' tastes out there and there always have been. If mere sex was all it took to produce some animal-human hybrid, we would probably have seen many of them long ago. Even Ilya Ivanov, who tried ardently to produce such a hybrid in the early 1900's, failed to produce to much as an unsucessful preganancy. So don't hold your breath.

Answer 2

Well at first they claimed Oliver the Humanzee was a half human, half ape. They concluded all the experiments by saying he was definately an ape because he has 47 chromosomes instead of 48 like we do. He was the only such case I am aware of. I do not believe there are any others.

Answer 3

I'm sure it has been done/tried or whatever...I say we are just pushing the time forward to end this travesty we call life. We are treading where no man has ever tread before and it still doesn't make it right.

Answer 4

Yes! But it died out quite a long time ago. It was Homohabilis if I'm not mistaken. Fell free to correct me though.

Answer 5

I've actually dated several of them.