At the beginning of the 20th century, the whole world literally turned upside down. It was a period of crazy ideas, experiments and discoveries. It was during this period of time that it seemed to scientists that they were on the threshold of the greatest discovery. For the first time, the news that a human and an animal would interbreed appeared in 1909. Biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov said at the world congress that it is quite possible to create an ape-man. And, he was not the only scientist dealing with this issue.
Who and when was involved in the creation of the ape-man
In 1910, the surgeons Voronov and Steinakh made the first attempts to transplant monkey glands to humans. The business of xenotransplantation gained such momentum that Voronov had to open his own monkey nursery in the south of France.
Rozanov Vladimir Nikolaevich, a famous surgeon who operated on Stalin and Lenin in his time, also conducted numerous experiments in this area. He transplanted chimpanzee glands into humans and, it seemed,it promised a resounding success. Local newspapers constantly published stories about how the glands of the primate can cure dementia, reduced potency and aging. But have these attempts been successful? Over time, the world came to the conclusion that these experiments were just a placebo. That is, the effect that was observed after xenotransplantation was nothing more than self-hypnosis.
Traces of unseen animals
In the writings of Bernard Euvelmans, a biologist and famous zoologist, there are a huge number of references to the so-called "Yeti". Whether Bigfoot really existed is still not known for sure. A large number of scientists are of the opinion that the Yeti actually lived near human settlements, but there are no fewer skeptics who deny this. One day, two cowboys managed to film a female Bigfoot. The famous plot of Patterson - Gimlin, on which a yeti is clearly visible, has spread all over the world, however, here too there were scientists who refute this event. They believe that since it is impossible to cross people with animals, the photos and videos presented by many eyewitnesses are nothing more than a montage.
There is another evidence of the existence of at least one Bigfoot. In the pre-revolutionary forests of Abkhazia, an unusual woman was caught by one prince. Her height was more than 2 meters, in addition, she was all covered with hair and could not speak. Some scientists believe that human-crossing experiments withanimals could lead to the birth of a similar individual. She was forcibly brought to the settlement and kept locked up for a long time because she was very aggressive. There are facts confirming that the snow woman had an intimate relationship with men (people in the settlement) and gave birth to at least 4 children from them. Khvit, one of her sons, subsequently had his own family and children.
Strong workforce
It is known that at the beginning of the 20th century there was a catastrophic shortage of labor. Joseph Stalin, having learned that in Germany certain experiments were being carried out on people and animals, he also decided not to hesitate. Under his leadership, numerous experiments were carried out on people. Crossbreeding with animals was supposed to help create incredibly hardy, and at the same time quite docile ape-men. In addition, according to scientists, such a creature should have reached full maturity in just 4 years. Stalin planned that the new workforce would be able not only to mine coal, build railways, but also, if necessary, fight.
First attempts
The first experiments of the French scientist Sergei Voronov were aimed at rejuvenating people. While studying in Egypt, he drew attention to the eunuchs. They looked much older than the rest of the men. At this moment, the scientist thought about the influence of the gonads on the state of the body. In 1910, Voronov successfully transplanted a chimpanzee testicle into an elderly English aristocrat for the first time. Local newspapers wrote that the effect of xenotransplantation was not long in coming, and after a while the Englishman looked several years old.younger. In this case, the question arises: why is this method of rejuvenation not used in modern transplantology? Obviously it was actually a placebo effect.
Professor Ivanov's secret experiments in Guinea
Almost at the same time, the Kremlin also began to wonder if it was really possible to cross a human and an animal? All scientific activity in this area was entrusted to two biologists - Ilya Ivanov and Vladimir Rozanov. At that time, they were already successfully engaged in artificial insemination of animals. Vladimir Rozanov, like his French colleague Voronov, performed transplantation of the gonads of chimpanzees. The difficulty was that the demand for transplants was so huge that the scientist did not have enough monkeys.
In 1926, Dr. Ivanov and his son went on an expedition to Guinea. They needed to capture female and male chimpanzees for experiments. In addition, they faced the task of persuading at least a few African women to take part in the experiment. Ivanov wanted to try to fertilize a woman with chimpanzee sperm, and a female chimpanzee with human semen. However, finding a resident of Guinea who agreed to such experiments, even for a lot of money, turned out to be impossible. Then the scientist, together with the Kremlin, decided to do it secretly. Under the guise of examination, several African women were injected with chimpanzee sperm. How this crossing of animals and humans ended is unknown. Soon the scientist Ivanov left Africa andwent to conduct experiments in the Abkhazian town of Sukhumi.
Sukhumi monkey reserve
In 1927, in Abkhazia, in the small and little-known town of Sukhum at that time, in order to cross animals and humans, a monkey reserve was created.
From Guinea Ivanov brought the first chimpanzees and gorillas, among which were two large and he althy females. The professor tried to impregnate them with human sperm. After some time, the female monkeys died. At autopsy, it turned out that conception never happened. At that time, Ivanov did not yet understand why the experiments were not working. Modern scientists of genetics explain this quite simply.
Does a man look like a chimpanzee
It turns out that despite the fact that humans and monkeys have a lot of similarities, there are also significant differences. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes for a total of 46. Chimpanzees have 24 pairs for a total of 48 chromosomes. If such individuals produce a descendant, then it will have an odd number of chromosomes - 47. Such an individual will not be able to produce offspring, since the set of chromosomes will be 46 + 1 - one chromosome will be without a pair.
An example of such a barren animal is a mule. It is known that his parents are a donkey (having 31 pairs of chromosomes) and a horse (32 pairs of chromosomes). In science, obtaining offspring from parents who belong to different species is called interspecific crossing. Humans and animals can only be crossed if they have the same DNA,similar karyotype and anatomical features.
Therefore, it turns out that the crossing of animals and humans under normal conditions is impossible due to significant differences in their karyotypes. It has been proven that 18 pairs of human and monkey chromosomes are almost identical, but the rest have a lot of differences. The sex chromosomes, which are responsible for the future sex of the offspring, also differ significantly.
The impossible yesterday became possible today
Experiments on crossing humans and animals probably never stopped and will never stop. Scientists of genetic engineering have found out that Professor Ivanov was right about something. Crossbreeding between man and animal can indeed be of great benefit to mankind. However, this is not about mutants and Bigfoot. Here we are talking about stem cells that can be obtained from hybrid embryos.
Modern medicine is in great need of stem cells, because they can be used to cure many diseases. The stem cell is capable of self-renewal and division, thus creating any cells of all organs and tissues. Moreover, experiments in genetic engineering prove that stem cells in the body are responsible for youth and longevity. By old age, there are much fewer such cells in the human body, tissues lose their ability to self-renew, organs work much weaker.
Secrets and mysticism of experiments
Despite the huge amount of evidence, the mysteries in thisarea of research was no less. For example, after the death of Ivanov, all documents and materials on crossing were hidden and strictly classified. The question arises: if the experiments did not bring any positive result, why did the Kremlin classify all the materials? Crossbreeding of animals and humans has always been shrouded in mystery. There is evidence that many women participated in the experiments in Abkhazia. They were voluntarily fertilized with chimpanzee sperm. But it was impossible to find such a woman and ask her about the progress of the experiments. What happened to all those people who participated in the experiments, and where did they disappear to?
At the moment, in many countries, experiments on crossing animals and humans are prohibited. However, does this mean that they are not carried out? Who knows, maybe in the next century science will still see a chimera?
