Ok, I am not supporting bestiality here. But, I just came to know about a Dogxim, a dog fox hybrid and I had known for a long time that horses and donkeys can breed (to produce a mule). So, I was just curious, can humans breed with any other animals closely related to us?

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1381·
    8 days ago

    Homo sapiens are the last remaining species of hominina. Our closest remaining relatives, the Pan (chimpanzees and bonobos) diverged at least 6.5 million years ago. Though there is some evidence early hominina may have interbred with pan after the divergence as recently as 4 mya.

    This is more recent than dogs and foxes by a long way, and about the same as donkeys and horses. That, plus chromosomal analysis and some other research suggests it could be possible for a human and chimp or bonobo to interbreed, though likely not create fertile offspring. However, there has never been a confirmed case of this occurring, despite multiple claims.

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        28·
        8 days ago

        We’re talking way earlier than cavemen. The last interbreeding between our ancestors and chimps’ ancestors happened (using the most recent estimate I could find) a million years before the least recent evidence of the use of any stone tools. This is not a human that would be recognisable at all as a human.

    • arthur@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      Pretty sure that we can’t breed with chimps and generate a fertile offspring due the mismatch on the number of chromosomes.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
      53·
      8 days ago

      So after reading the wiki, I believe the most likely successful attempt will be to mate a human with downe syndrome, with a chimpanzee. Let’s get on this. I wanna see some atrocities of nature.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
          44·
          7 days ago

          The wiki says it’s hard with chimps because we have one less chromosome than chimps. Down syndrome: “all my homes got extra chromies”. They have an extra chromosome. Ergo: down syndrome + chimp = hybrid chimpmanzee.

            • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
              27·
              7 days ago

              Thats how down syndrome works. Look it up yourself, smart guy. People with down syndrome have 47 chromosomes instead of 46. Chimps have 48, so down syndrome people are one closer, by mutation. That means just one more mutation and we’re all set.

              Now start work on making a monkeyboy.

              • Mambert@beehaw.org
                2·
                6 days ago

                An odd pair of chromosomes makes it harder than being off by a pair. Mules are unbreedable due to their odd number of chromosomes.

                We have successfully bred with species further apart, including an alpaca and a llama.

                So yes all the science points to it being possible with humans, but ethically we can’t possibly do that.

                And it is not one more mutation to add an extra chromosome. It’s a loooot more.

              • Zagorath@aussie.zone
                5·
                7 days ago

                Are you really this fucking thick? There’s more to genetic compatibility than chromosome count. Otherwise we’d be seeing human–Reeves’s muntjac hybrids. Or chimp-gorilla.