[extropy-chat] human / chimp breeding

[Joseph Bloch]

Could you be thinking of the report that Stalin wanted to create an army 
of ape-human hybrids that came out a month or two ago?

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2434192005

Joseph

Russell Wallace wrote:

> (on human-chimp hybrids)
>
> On 2/16/06, *kevinfreels.com <http://kevinfreels.com>* 
> <kevin at kevinfreels.com <mailto:kevin at kevinfreels.com>> wrote:
>
>     Scientific experiments always stem from questions being asked.
>     Certainly the question gets quite a bit about humans and chimps in
>     that field. There are many debates about whether or not it would
>     work. But as far as I know, the actual study has never been done.
>
>
> I read somewhere that it has. I don't remember who by, it was some 
> crowd who were, shall we say, not overly burdened with moral 
> principles; maybe the Nazis. But IIRC the embryo was fortunately not 
> viable, aborted after a couple of months or somesuch.
>
> - Russell
>
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