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?

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 days ago

      The wiki says it’s hard with chimps because we have one less chromosome than chimps. Down syndrome: “all my homes got extra chromies”. They have an extra chromosome. Ergo: down syndrome + chimp = hybrid chimpmanzee.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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          7 days ago

          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.

          • Mambert@beehaw.org
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            5 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.

          • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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            7 days ago

            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.