Could a man impregnate a chimp?

Factual Questions
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One thing to note is the “myth of large percentages”. That is, 98% or 99% may sound like a large level of similarity, but it really isn’t in some matters. Like genetics.

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      • Well, no. As it has tactfully been pointed out in other threads, animals have very little in the way of shame or guilt. If they’re wanting to get it, they typically don’t care who’s givin’ it. If everything is about the right size, they’re quite willing to try.
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  • Perhaps the first question to ask is, can a man get a chimp drunk? - MC
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I don’t believe bonobos are any more closely related to us than are chimpanzees. Bonobos and chimps are quite closely related to each other, but both are about equally closely related to us. Behaviorally, bonobos seem most humanlike in some ways; then again, in other respects, we’re behaviorally more like chimpanzees.

MC:

Or, “can a chimp get a man drunk?”

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      • Mr Blue Sky: If the Olsen twins are the result of a chimp and a man breeding, I wanna meet that chimp. - MC
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Humans share a greater percentage of their DNA with chimpanzees than with bonobos (a.k.a. pygmy chimps). In fact, humans are more closely related to common chimpanzees than common chimpanzees are related to pygmy chimpanzees.

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Interesting… if you happen to know a good link that would save me some search time I’d love to see it.

I heard that the Bonobo’s were our closest relative on a nature show. Granted, it ain’t the highest authority, maybe they botched their research.

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See Jared Diamond’s The Third Chimpanzee, where he makes this argument much more eloquently than I have.

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Cynic:

A controversial claim :slight_smile: . This link disagrees:

http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/H/HominoidClade.html

Which isn’t to say you’re necessarily wrong. Just that it isn’t always clear-cut :wink: .

  • Tamerlane
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Hmm…I don’t know. Get me about a quart of tequila and a female chimp in a thong and we’ll see what we can do.

Marc

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      • Who gets the tequila? - MC
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I want to know if Ned Beatty ever got pregnant. He needed tequila!

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Sorry, I believe she is already taken. How about a Bonobo?

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      • You got any blondes that do housework?
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i guess the more interesting question is:

can we have a cross between a human and ANY OTHER mammal?

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kalt:

Nope :slight_smile: . For reasons already stated. The chimpanzee/bonobo would be the best possibility. Since that doesn’t work, nothing will.

Now if Homo habilis had survived until modern times - THEN you might have an interesting question :wink: .

  • Tamerlane