Evolutionary psychologist Dr. Gordon Gallup announced that a human-chimpanzee hybrid was created in an Orange Park laboratory in Florida nearly 100 years ago.
In an interview with The Sun, 77-year-old Gallup said that the calf, a hybrid of a chimpanzee and a human, was born in a special research facility. The cub was born sometime in the 1920s, and this happened after a female chimpanzee was artificially inseminated with sperm from an unknown human donor.
Gordon Gallup.
Few expected success from this procedure, but the female chimpanzee suddenly became pregnant and safely carried and gave birth to a child. However, after only a few days or a couple of weeks, due to disputes over the moral and ethical side of the issue, it was decided to euthanize and kill the cub.
Gallup, he said, received this information from his former university professor, whose last name was not disclosed. Gallup was absolutely certain that the professor had told him the truth. This professor worked at the same research center until the 1930s. and later moved to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
For a human-chimpanzee hybrid, there is a special name "humanzee" from the English words "human" and "chimpanzee", which Gallup himself once invented and which was first widely used in the 1970s, when a story about a very unusual chimpanzee named Oliver got into the press.
Oliver was so different from his relatives (he had little hair on his head, he walked on two legs more often than on four limbs, etc.) that there were rumors that he had human genes. Later, genetic tests showed that Oliver was still an ordinary chimpanzee, albeit with unusual behavior and an odd appearance.
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Earlier in history, there were only two known attempts to create "humanze". In the 1920s, Russian biologist Ilya Ivanov worked in the field of interspecies hybridization of animals and one of his most controversial works was an attempt to create a hybrid of man and ape. Back in 1910, during his speech before the World Congress of Zoologists in Graz, he described the possibility of obtaining such a hybrid using artificial insemination.
More information about Ivanov's work can be found in the article "Hybrids from crossing humans with monkeys and yeti".
Another attempt was made in China in 1967. Then the press got information that the alleged female monkey became pregnant after intercourse with a man and began to bear a hybrid cub. But the project was closed and the female died due to mistreatment. The fate of her cub was not reported.
Gallup himself, who despite his age still works as a teacher at the University of Albany in New York, is confident that hybrids can be created not only between humans and chimpanzees, but also between humans and other primates.
“All the available evidence, both paleontological and biochemical, including in DNA, suggests that humans may also have offspring from orangutans and gorillas. All due to the fact that man, gorilla and orangutan descended from one common ancestor."
