107: Humanzee: The Human-Chimp Hybrid

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🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you cross a chimp with a man? Serious ethical concerns and an exile from the Soviet Union... Yes, someone actually tried to make a man-ape hybrid. It didn’t end well

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References & Further Reading
Hybrids
https://www.britannica.com/science/hybrid
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/human-monkey-hybrid-china-organ-transplant-stem-cells-embryo-a9037506.html?amp

Humans and Chimps
https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-020-06962-8
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2464272/#!po=3.12500
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04789#ref-CR33
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/human-origins/understanding-our-past/dna-comparing-humans-and-chimps
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC187548/

Ilya Ivanov & His Experiments
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926701-000-blasts-from-the-past-the-soviet-ape-man-scandal/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-russian-government-once-funded-a-scientists-quest-to-make-an-ape-human-hybrid-5043859/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ilya-Ivanovich-Ivanov

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0:00.0	What are we starting with this week, boys?
0:02.0	A wee review.
0:03.0	No.
0:04.0	Ah, a we...
0:05.0	No.
0:06.0	A, a...
0:07.0	A comment.
0:08.0	A email.
0:09.0	That's right.
0:10.0	A comment.
0:11.0	A comment. Yes.
0:12.0	Yes, well done. So this comment is on our left-handed video if we go and watch that, if you
0:15.0	want to learn about the left-handed people.
0:17.0	So, this comment says, since the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, only left-handed people
0:24.6	are in their right minds.
0:25.6	Ah.
0:26.6	Very good, right? Very funny, I think.
0:29.6	Um, shall we start the show?
0:31.6	Yes.
0:32.6	Let's start the show where we talk about the crazy weird and wonderful stories from the science world.
0:47.4	I'm Corey and as always, I'm joined by my co-hosts, Jamp and Luke Cutforth.
0:51.7	Hello.
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