ThetaDev@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoTIL In the 1920s Russian scientist Ilya Ivanov tried to create a human-chimpanzee hybrid. Both attempts at inseminating chimpanzees with human sperm and women with ape sperm failed.en.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down115
arrow-up165arrow-down1external-linkTIL In the 1920s Russian scientist Ilya Ivanov tried to create a human-chimpanzee hybrid. Both attempts at inseminating chimpanzees with human sperm and women with ape sperm failed.en.m.wikipedia.orgThetaDev@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squarecriitz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·10 months agoIt does say he was trying that too In 1929, after returning to the Soviet Union, he attempted to organize a set of experiments involving nonhuman ape sperm and human volunteers but was delayed by the death of his last orangutan.
It does say he was trying that too