# First human-animal hybrid created. Good or bad?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-animal-hybrid-created-good-or-bad/778276>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 27, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-animal-hybrid-created-good-or-bad/778276 "2017-01-27T00:13:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-animal-hybrid-created-good-or-bad/778276/41 "2017-02-08T20:02:48Z")

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> [@Lumpy](#):
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> Literally, is this kosher?

Kosher bacon?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-animal-hybrid-created-good-or-bad/778276/42 "2017-02-08T20:52:11Z")

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> [@Yllaria](#):
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> Now that is interesting.

Yeah - some of the other examples are weird patchworks of one thing or the other (+[Laburnocytisus](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:%2BLaburnocytisus#/media/File:%2BLaburnocytisus_Wideangle.jpg) for example) - and yet others are mixed very finely to the extent that they appear intermediate to the graft parents - that is, they look and behave, macroscopically a bit like a sexual hybrid (+Crataegomespilus, for example, which is a graft hybrid of hawthorn and medlar, and has leaves, flowers and fruits that are like a cross between the two)

IIRC, the extent to which the tissues mingle is dependent on the way they would differentiate in the single parent species - growing tissues are programmed to grow on top of others or underneath them - which in a non-chimaeric organism, results in the structures of the organs and their arrangement, but in a chimaera formed from two different species, there are two sets of different differentiation priorities in competition with one another. It’s possible that a man-pig could be a horrific deformed monster for this reason.

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-animal-hybrid-created-good-or-bad/778276/43 "2017-02-09T00:58:34Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> It’s possible that a man-pig could be a horrific deformed monster for this reason.

Syfy channel movie!

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-animal-hybrid-created-good-or-bad/778276/44 "2017-02-09T08:16:34Z")

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Anyway, why does it have to be a Man-Pig. Can’t we have a [Girl-Pig](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f0/fa/83/f0fa8326f5923c2069e8100d055e417c.jpg) instead?

(I’m not the only one that preferred her with the snout and ears, right?)

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-animal-hybrid-created-good-or-bad/778276/45 "2017-02-09T16:50:45Z")

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No? Just me then. Oops. Probably shouldn’t have admitted that.

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