How to Make A Humanzee
We all know about inter species animal hybrids - Napoleon Dynamite's favorite animal, the liger, is a typical example. But could a human and our closest primate relative the chimpanzee also...
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There are a bunch of cross species hybrids out there: mules, ligers zebroids, beefalo, we recently discussed the majestic grolar bear but we tend to think of humans on a different level from that. We are human, there's no species even close to us; how could we possibly interbreed with something-- also, blegh! But guess what? It's been done. And some say it could be done again. It's been done because we all have a little bit of Neanderthal in us, as we've discussed previously on SciShow, the average European is one to four percent Neanderthal. So, in effect, we are all inter-species hybrids - though that DNA has become so ingrained in our species that basically it's part of what makes us human - but the more frightening and fascinating...
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There are a bunch of cross species hybrids out there: mules, ligers zebroids, beefalo, we recently discussed the majestic grolar bear but we tend to think of humans on a different level from that. We are human, there's no species even close to us; how could we possibly interbreed with something-- also, blegh! But guess what? It's been done. And some say it could be done again. It's been done because we all have a little bit of Neanderthal in us, as we've discussed previously on SciShow, the average European is one to four percent Neanderthal. So, in effect, we are all inter-species hybrids - though that DNA has become so ingrained in our species that basically it's part of what makes us human - but the more frightening and fascinating...
