Have you heard of the Primate Cross-Species Hybridization Commission that studies the mating of humans and orangutans? Yes, that's right, it's an attempt to modify human genes by interbreeding humans with other primates to create demihumans that only exist in myths and legends.
This is a real historical story, which took place in the Soviet period of the 20s of the 20th century. At that time, there was a biological scientist in the Soviet Union, Ilya Ivanov, who was engaged in biological hybridization engineering.
In fact, biological hybridization is not a rare thing, such as mules, which are the products of the hybridization of donkeys and horses. In modern agriculture, hybridization is a common means of increasing food production.
To this end, this scientist, who was a little too persistent, came up with a bold and crazy idea, can he cross humans with other primates? To improve people's physique?
After all, from the perspective of DNA combination alone, the genetic combination of humans and apes is quite close, and it may not be able to combine!
Of course, this is a big project, and he alone cannot do it, so he first put forward his bold idea at a gathering of scientists in Austria, and hoped to find like-minded people to carry out this "great" cause with him!
Then, when the scientist said his crazy thoughts, the scene was silent at first, and everyone was shocked by his brain hole!
Then came the crazy scolding!
You lunatic! You are trampling on the bottom line of human ethics and morality! It is also breaking the laws of nature!
For a while, this scientist, who was still relatively famous, became shouted at in the academic circle.
But perhaps he has fallen too deeply, Ivanov, instead of giving up his ideas because of the accusations of these peers, found the Soviet government and submitted his own hybridization plan.
Because the Soviet Union was in difficulty at that time, and the twenties and thirties of the century were an era of rapid progress in science and technology, people had a blind worship of science and technology.
At the same time, the United States, for its own strategy of developing the western region, made up rabbits as big as horses and radishes larger than people, so as to attract people to the west?
Of course, although the Soviet government is very excited about this hybrid plan, after all, it still has to take into account public opinion, so the Soviet government decided to carry out it in the form of secret funding.
In 1926, Ivanov, after adequate preparation, came to Guinea, Africa with a large amount of supplies.
At first, his idea was to inject human sperm into female orangutans, but although orangutans and humans are primates, they cannot combine at all, let alone produce offspring.
The direction is wrong, no matter how hard you try, it is for nothing?
Tossed and tossed, except for tossing and killing many chimpanzees, Ivanov's experiments did not achieve anything.
After many failures, Ivanov reflected, but he did not reflect on his own experiments, right? Do you think that there is something wrong with your subject? Perhaps human sperm should not be injected into orangutans, but orangutan sperm should be injected into humans?
So Ivanov began to look for human women willing to cooperate with his experiments, and as a result, the originally respected scientist was regarded as crazy by everyone in the locality.
The French colonial government in charge of Guinea directly sent this enchanted scientist out of the country and strictly forbade him to return.
Undeterred, Ivanov returned to the Soviet Union and began lobbying the top of the Soviet Union through some of his previous research results.
Like a good dealer, he told the Soviet leadership that his experiment was about to succeed, and if it succeeded, you would be able to get a warrior with human intelligence and an orangutan agility!
Eventually, he convinced the Soviet government.
Even, under his leadership, the Soviet government formed an organization called the Committee for Transspecies Hybridization of Primates. He also found five volunteers who were willing to cooperate with him.
Unfortunately, even so, his experiment ended in failure.
Again, science is also about laws.
It is a pity that Ivanov, a scientist, believes too much that science believes that science is God and that science can do everything, but ignores that science itself has forbidden areas.
In the end, Ivanov's experiment achieved nothing except wasting a lot of Soviet government resources and allowing the Soviet government to gain a lot of criticism from public opinion.
The embarrassed Soviet government exiled the madman to Kazakhstan, bringing an end to this farcical scientific activity.
But to the death, Ivanov insisted that the direction of his experiment was correct, and all he lacked was luck and sufficient resources! Even after his exile, he tried to lobby other dignitaries to support his experiments.
Unfortunately, he did not succeed until death.
Ivanov's crazy story ended with his death, but behind the scientist, it was a wake-up call.
Technology is a double-edged sword, people should also maintain due awe while using technology to transform the world!
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