What happens when you cross a chimp with a man? Serious ethical concerns and an exile from the Soviet Union... Yes, someone actually tried to make a man-ape hybrid. It didn’t end well

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References & Further Reading

Hybrids

https://www.britannica.com/science/hybrid

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/human-monkey-hybrid-china-organ-transplant-stem-cells-embryo-a9037506.html?amp

Humans and Chimps

https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-020-06962-8

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2464272/#!po=3.12500

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04789#ref-CR33

https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/human-origins/understanding-our-past/dna-comparing-humans-and-chimps

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC187548/

Ilya Ivanov & His Experiments

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926701-000-blasts-from-the-past-the-soviet-ape-man-scandal/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-russian-government-once-funded-a-scientists-quest-to-make-an-ape-human-hybrid-5043859/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ilya-Ivanovich-Ivanov

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