Hey if they were both plants it might work.
I just really hope it was misguided science of the time and not a way to fund someone’s desire to have sex with a chimpanzee.
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Like that’s never happened?
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Clearly, some cross breeding has occurred, to the detriment of chimps~
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Jake the Alligator Man is real, though! missing link found in Florida swamp, now on display in Long Beach, WA.
and I seen 'im!
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D’oh, you’re right. I mixed up the composer (Shostakovich) with the librettist (Starchakov).
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This was also fiction.
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What the History of Yesterday article claims their linked source says:
What their linked source actually says:
C’mon, man. That’s just some embarrassingly bad reportage.
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Humans also share a 98% DNA similarity with pigs, ya know.
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So is this what Rick Santorum was on about?
I don’t know…I think I might need to hear it repeated a few textbooks before it becomes genuinely plausible.
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Strictly speaking wrt to humans, there are (very rare but real) medical precedents for this actual term:
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By itself, that does not make hybridization nonviable. After all, mules and hinnies are hybrids of a horse with 64 chromosomes and a donkey with 62. This generally renders them sterile, but definitely viable. (“Generally” sterile, because while the 63-chromosome hybrid does not produce viable germ cells through normal meiosis, it can still experience failures, e.g. nondisjunction, which can result in a viable 31 or 32 chromosome germ cell, so mules have been known to produce offspring on extremely rare occasions.)
But in the case of humans and chimpanzees, the bigger problem may be the fact that the karyotypes differ in the second-largest chromosome - a large discrepancy between the genomes makes it more likely that the hybrid might not live long enough to be born. There’s a reason why the most commonly seen anomalous karyotype in humans is trisomy 21, aka Down syndrome, which involves the second-smallest autosomal chromosome: most issues involving larger chromosomes are lethal early in embryonic development.
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Was this on Boing Boing already?
It simply MUST have been on Boing Boing already
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Weirding ways indeed…
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