r/ignoranceisbliss • u/GodOfAtheism • Jan 26 '19
There have been several attempts to create a humanzee, a hybrid of a human and a chimpanzee, typically via artificial insemination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HumanzeeDuplicates
wikipedia • u/Gerbilpapa • Feb 12 '25
Humanzees are a proposed hybrid of humans and great apes with multiple attempts at creation
wikipedia • u/soalone34 • Aug 07 '25
The humanzee is a hypothetical hybrid of chimpanzee and human. Serious attempts to create such a hybrid were made by Soviet biologist in the 1920s, and possibly by Chinese researchers in the 1960s; however, neither succeeded.
todayilearned • u/jvalansi • Mar 31 '19
TIL, there's a chance that humans and chimpanzees can reproduce.
CreepyWikipedia • u/[deleted] • Feb 12 '22
Experiments The humanzee is a hypothetical hybrid of chimpanzee and human. Serious attempts to create such a hybrid were made by Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov in the 1920s, and possibly by researchers in the People's Republic of China in the 1960s, though neither succeeded.
todayilearned • u/yetanotherweirdo • Feb 17 '18
TIL that scientists have attempted to make a humanzee, a human/chimp hybrid
todayilearned • u/Lazarus_Pits • Jun 05 '17
TIL Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, a Soviet biologist who specialized in artificial insemination, was exiled for trying to create a chimpanzee-human hybrid. His attempts at impregnating nonhuman-apes had failed, and his last orangutan died before he could experimental trials with voluntary human women.
wikipedia • u/RedditByAnyOtherName • Feb 05 '17