Evolutionary psychology expert Gordon Gallup claims that scientists from the United States successfully crossed humans and chimpanzees 100 years ago. But scientists killed the "humanze" that was born.
Gordon Gallup.
Gordon Gallup Jr., the creator of the famous mirror test, which proved that primates can recognize their own reflection in a mirror, coined the term "humanze", meaning a hybrid of a human and a chimpanzee. Gallup stated that the human-primate cross was born in a laboratory in Orange Park, Florida, USA. Gallup was told about this by his university professor, who worked in the institution where the humanze was born.
Ilya Ivanov.
Another attempt to create a humanze was also made in the 1920s by the Russian biologist Ilya Ivanov. He tried to create a human-chimpanzee hybrid by injecting human sperm into a female primate.
Another reported case occurred in China in 1967. The female primate became pregnant with the hybrid, but died after the scientists were forced to leave the project.
Oliver.
In the 70s of the last century, Gallup's term "humanze" became widely known due to the emergence of a creature named Oliver. The strange male chimpanzee had no hair on his chest and head, he walked on his hind legs and had a "too human appearance." It was argued that Oliver is a real hybrid of a human and a chimpanzee, and he has 47 chromosomes (the average between a human who has 46 and a chimpanzee who has 48). But a DNA test carried out in the 2000s showed that he did have 48 chromosomes, like a normal chimpanzee. Oliver died in 2012 at the age of 55.
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Gallup argues that humans can be crossed not only with chimpanzees, but also with other primates, such as gorillas and orangutans.
