The news that the British government has given the green light to crossbreeding people and animals has caused bewilderment and many questions among residents of the whole world. For most, this fact does not fully fit into the head, because it seems inhumane. But still, many are interested in the results of ongoing experiments.
Breeding in the UK
In 2008, scientists in the UK received the legal right to cross people and animals. But not all laboratory assistants are allowed to conduct such experiments, but only those who have received a license for this. Such experiments are carried out with the aim of creating stem cells that will be able to save people from incurable ailments such as Alzheimer's disease and others.
Despite such noble goals, some influential people seek to ban such experiments on human and animal genes, because it is contrary to morality.
Scientists managed to grow 155 "unnatural" embryos. But the financing of such experimentswas discontinued. Laboratory assistants do not give up hope to get the desired results, because the law is on their side so far.
Experiences in the past
In fact, there is no reliable information about whether experiments are being carried out to cross people and animals in our time (experiments in the UK are not taken into account). But there is some documentary evidence that they were held in the 20th century. Professor Ivanov Ilya Ivanovich was responsible for these studies. This scientist has already crossed different mammals and achieved some success in this. For example, in 1901 he founded the first center in which they tried to artificially cross zebras and horses. After about 20 years, this scientist became famous, because with his participation the musk ox was bred. But Ivanov's dream was to cross people and animals, in particular with monkeys.
Experiments conducted by Ivanov
The professor spoke with his idea at symposiums where Western scientists considered such experiments to be blasphemy. But this idea interested the Soviet authorities, so they sponsored Ivanov's trip to Africa, where he could conduct similar experiments. It is here, according to the professor, that there are not only many gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees, but also native women who, with great desire, will agree to be fertilized by the seminal fluid of monkeys.
Of course, in order to get funds for crossing people and animals, Ivanov had to go through a thorny path, but in the end, in 1926, he and his partner son went toGuinea. Having settled in the laboratory of the Pasteur Institute, the scientist turned to the nursery for monkeys. But only cubs were kept there, naturally unsuitable for fertilization. No one dared to catch an adult from the jungle, since this is the risk of being torn to pieces.
Only after the appointment of a very large bonus, the most courageous trappers were able to catch a few individuals. The scientist conducted experiments on the insemination of monkeys with human sperm, but he wanted to do the opposite experiment, so that a woman would conceive from a gorilla. But dark-skinned ladies flatly refused to bear offspring from monkeys, so Ivanov was content only with the fact that only monkey females were fertilized.
The results of Ivanov's experiments
In the summer of 1927, the professor left Africa and took all 13 females with him in order to get the result at home, which should give a crossing of a man with a monkey. On the way, two of them died. He made his first "h alt" in Marseille. Leaving his wards here, he himself went to Paris in order to heal his heart. But the conditions for the monkeys were extreme, and so the females died one after the other. The remaining animals were sent to Sukhumi. Here, three months later, the rest of the individuals died. The decision was made to autopsy the monkeys, and it turned out that the females were not pregnant at all.
Have the professor's experiments ended?
Despite this failed expedition, Ivanov did not stop his experiments. A monkey house was opened in Sukhumi, and many men and women voluntarilycame to participate in the experiment. Such experiments continued until the end of the 20s, until Ivanov decided to present the results to the public. But they refused to publish this information in Soviet journals, so the professor sent a report on the experiments to the Pasteur Institute. The Soviet authorities considered this action as treason, and, according to some sources, Ivanov was shot in 1932.
What are the results of crossing man and animal? Photos, documentation, samples of hybrids (if any) never saw the light of day.
Is a monkey man possible?
Is it possible that crossing a human with a monkey will give positive results, and a baby will be born who inherited the genes from both parents? As already mentioned, it is not known whether such experiments are carried out in our time, so it is impossible to answer this question precisely. But anthropologists know cases when large primates abducted African women. It is unlikely that a child could have been born from these relationships, since women, rather, died of hunger or from sexual bullying by loving males.
