Re: Can humans interbreed with Chimpanzees?
Posted by Mike Kremer on Jun 04, 2003 at 20:05
(62.188.48.74)Re: Can humans interbreed with Chimpanzees? (Thermus aquaticus)
You say:-
"So in a sense, you might be able to make a chimp/human hybrid that had a human nuclear genome and a chimp mitochondrial genome, or visa versa. There’s no guarantee that such a hybrid would be viable."I hope such a hybrid won't ever be attempted.
Such a human/chimp hybrid would undo and turn back human evolution a million years or so.
Again, would a chimp/human hybrid advance the evolutionary status of the chimp?
It would seem to me that the public would rather accept a straightforward cloning of a human being than this type of hybrid horror?
And yet I seem to remember the "Shoat" --supposed to be a cross between a Sheep and a Goat?
Did that confere any evolutionary advantage?