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Is there any animal, closely related to humans that a human can breed with? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ok, I am not supporting bestiality here. But, I just came to know about a Dogxim, a dog fox hybrid and I had known for a long time that horses and donkeys can breed (to produce a mule). So, I was just curious, can humans breed with any other animals closely related to us?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't think that's how chromosomes work

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Thats how down syndrome works. Look it up yourself, smart guy. People with down syndrome have 47 chromosomes instead of 46. Chimps have 48, so down syndrome people are one closer, by mutation. That means just one more mutation and we're all set.

Now start work on making a monkeyboy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

An odd pair of chromosomes makes it harder than being off by a pair. Mules are unbreedable due to their odd number of chromosomes.

We have successfully bred with species further apart, including an alpaca and a llama.

So yes all the science points to it being possible with humans, but ethically we can't possibly do that.

And it is not one more mutation to add an extra chromosome. It's a loooot more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are you really this fucking thick? There's more to genetic compatibility than chromosome count. Otherwise we'd be seeing human–Reeves's muntjac hybrids. Or chimp-gorilla.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are you seriously this fucking thick? You think I've been serious? Lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh, so you were just being a dick for the sake of being a dick? That's worse bro.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How is it being a dick? Because you got mad?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Because it compares people with down syndrome to chimpanzees, and because it took a good faith serious discussion and made a mockery of it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Bro, humans are compared to chimpanzees. DNA wise were almost a banana as well. You're getting butthurt on anothers behalf because of the fact that they have an extra chromosome? That's literally what down syndrome is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Okay, let's make this simple enough for you. Pictures, everybody. Pictures for the man with the mind of a sloth. Exhibit A. Exhibit B.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Ah yes. And the man monkey in the middle! I bet that's what Bigfoot is.