![]() Ĭhimpanzees and humans are closely related, sharing 95% of their DNA sequence and 99% of coding DNA sequences. The possibility of hybrids between humans and other apes has been entertained since at least the medieval period Saint Peter Damian (11th century) claimed to have been told of the offspring of a human woman who had mated with an ape, and so did Antonio Zucchelli, an Italian Franciscan capuchin friar who was a missionary in Africa from 1698 to 1702, and Sir Edward Coke in "The Institutes of the Lawes of England". The portmanteau humanzee for a human–chimpanzee hybrid appears to have entered usage in the 1980s. Serious attempts to create such a hybrid were made by Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov in the 1920s, and possibly by researchers in China in the 1960s, though neither succeeded. Study author Nadine Ruppert said: "We concluded from the observations that the photographers made that male proboscis monkeys are mating with female silver langurs in the area and that there are mixed groups where female proboscis monkeys even take care of silver langur babies.The humanzee (sometimes chuman, manpanzee or chumanzee) is a hypothetical hybrid of chimpanzee and human, thus a form of human–animal hybrid. Researchers have concluded that the monkey has most likely been the result of two distantly related species that share the same habitat a proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) and a silvery langur (Trachypithecus cristatus). However, as there have not yet been any authenticated cases of genetically-engineered ape-men being successfully produced, the Borneo ape will continue to remain the fascination of scientists within this field. ![]() They'd also explore dangerous environments such as outer space and the depths of the ocean.Ī human-monkey hybrid that was created in 2019 by a team of scientists led by Professor Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte from the US Salk Institute for Biological Studies, reportedly was alive for 19 days. The 'humanzees' would have been used for a series of different purposes such as mining and heavy agricultural work. He revealed he wanted to produce a creature that retained the strength of a chimpanzee but was able to talk. Given the name Oliver, it was reported that the ape was a human–chimpanzee hybrid that had less body hair than other animals but was much more intelligent.Īlthough it showed in a post-mortem that the hybrid had the same genetic makeup as any normal chimpanzee.Ī few years later, reports had emerged in the 1980s that experiments of human-chimpanzee crossbreeding had gone on in 1967 in the People's Republic of China.ĭr Ji Yongxiang, one of the scientists involved in restarting the project, spoke to the Wen Hui Boa newspaper about his aim for the project. The chimpanzee was four and a half feet tall and 125 pounds, and was said to have had 47 chromosomes, one less than apes and one more than humans.īiologist Ilya Ivanovich, led the 1920s project focused on cross-breeding apes and humans by using artificial insemination.Īfter the project was unsuccessful, the idea of developing a 'humanzee' didn't resurface until the 1970s when a 'mutant' chimp, who had human characteristics, was created. ![]() Oliver the Chimpanzee and South African animal handler Frank Burger before the press on Main New York City.
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