Wednesday, March 28, 2018

No. 300: Improving The Breed?

     The humanzee is both scientifically possible and morally defensible.
     It is a bit of a stretch, but by no means impossible or even unlikely that a hybrid or a chimera combining a human being and a chimpanzee could be produced in a laboratory.
     If that prospect isn't shocking enough, here is an even more controversial suggestion: Doing so would be a terrific idea.

Nautilus: It’s Time to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids

Many consider the idea reprehensible,
but “The humanzee is. . .
scientifically possible and morally defensible.”
Though this prospect may strike some as absurd
we could call the result Donald J. Trump III.
(This would not the only time where
someone named Trump had funny hair.)
Don't be put off and think this harebrained,
if you click the links you'll see Putin explained*.
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*During the 1920s, a Russian biologist with the marvelously Slavic name Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov appears to have made the first serious, scientifically informed efforts to create a genetic hybrid between chimpanzees and human beings. . . .it was Ivanov who made the most serious efforts at combining human and nonhuman apes.