ThetaDev@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 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-up191
arrow-up191external-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 · 5 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squarecriitzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·5 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