This might get ugly. ThisLos Angeles Times story says that the human chimpanzee split started about 6 million years ag and took about 4 million years to accomplish with probable interbreeding during that 4 million years. Coult this mean a possible human-chimpanzee hybrid by artificial insemination?
I know the DNA match is quite close. Is it as close as, say, the horse-donkey match? I couldn’t find a definitive rundown of horse-donkey DNA match through Google.
I don’t have an answer, but I think I already hear Ann Coulter screeching.
It hurts.
I think it’zs wonderful. Not only are humans descended from apes – some apes (i.e., chimpanzees) are descended from humans. So: if all humans have souls, do those chimpanzees have souls?
Oh c’mon. Don’t tell me for one minute that anyone on this board has not Googled “Humanzee” at least once. We all know you’re lying.
I haven’t.
I use Ask Jeeves for all my Humanzee Man-Ape shopping needs.
I, for one, welcome our new … oh, nevermind.
Would that really be any different than what we have now?
The report I heard made a point of emphasizing that the two species being discussed were very distant ancestors of modern-day chimp and human species, not at all like their present-day descendants, and that interpreting the story as meaning “humans and chimps used to interbreed” would be totally misleading.
In otherwords: no hybrids. The species mentioned no longer exist.
A bit hairier. Just a bit. Maybe. :dubious:
Actually, I believe that Bonobos (originally called Pygmy Chimpanzees) are more closely related to us.
Say… What if the closest human relatives to Bonobos lived in Turkey, and the hybrids were a littler mentally unbalanced. Daffy. Then you could legitimately call those hybrids…
…Naahhhh. I can’t say it. Too awful a pun. And too obscure for a lot of Dopers.
Once you go Chiman
You’ll live to make semen.
Grok.
Too easy. Try: Once you go chimp, you’ll never be limp.
Erectus? Darn near crossbred us!
Hmmm, I’ve got a question: Are we talking about TWO distinct species? If they were two distinct species, wouldn’t it have been impossible fo rthe two to mate?
I’m missing something here…
Oh, c’mon - the suspense is killing me. I can’t work it out for myself, got the brain shivers today. Pleeeeeeease?
Once you go-rilla it’s always a thrilla.
BONOMO TURKISH TAFFY (DAFFY)
I don’t know about the chimps, but Ann Coulter’s face is good evidence for the existence of human-horse hybrids.
Almost. It’d be:
Bonobo-Turkish Daffy
Which, of course,recalls this treat ftom my youth, which is apparently poised to make a comeback:
http://www.bonomosturkishtaffy.com/
If you smack a Bonomo-Turkish Daffy hard against a wall, does it split into bite-sized pieces?
Chimp is some prime mate.
I think you have to freeze it first. (I have this vague feeling that I had the stuff long ago, myself.)