In 1927, a news about the "Human-Ape Hybrid Experiment" caused a sensation around the world, and the Soviet scientists who initiated it went crazy, broke through the bottom line of human morality, and tried to make humans pregnant with ape children! What's going on with this experiment? What happened in the end?
The first to propose the hybridization of apes was a Soviet scientist named Ivanov, who had already had successful cases of hybridization of other species at that time, and after seeing it, Ivanov suddenly thought, can humans and animals hybridize? Can humans achieve breakthroughs in physical fitness with the help of the excellent genes of some animals?
After this idea came up, it got out of hand, and Ivanov, after deliberating, chose to report this experimental idea. And this experiment that was so crazy that it broke through the bottom line of morality finally passed successfully!
At that time, the Soviet Union's thinking actually coincided with Ivanov, thinking about whether human intelligence could be combined with animal power, so that a completely new species could emerge and become a secret weapon in the army.
After the application was approved, Ivanov immediately began to prepare. For the experimental animals, Ivanov chose chimpanzees, because chimpanzees have a high genetic similarity with humans, a full 98.5%, according to his ideas, this should be the least risky and the most successful choice.
However, there were not many chimpanzees in the Soviet Union for Ivanov to experiment with, so Ivanov specially traveled thousands of miles to Africa. There are many chimpanzees here, and it is naturally easier to experiment.
At the beginning of the experiment, the idea was to artificially inseminate human male semen into the mother orangutan. To this end, the experimental team captured a large number of female orangutans in the African jungle and sent them to the laboratory, opening a cruel experimental road.
Where chimpanzees can understand people's words, there is naturally a lot of resistance during the experiment, and the experimenters simply inject anesthetics, bundle them to the experimental table for artificial insemination, and then forcibly pry open their mouths and fill them with a large amount of food and drugs.
Many chimpanzees who have been tortured in this way have physiological disorders, and some even give birth to a series of diseases and die in endless pain.
And this situation gradually became uncontrollable, and eventually all the chimpanzees died like this, and none of them succeeded.
In the defeat, Ivanov did not give up the experiment, but a more perverted idea appeared - can the semen of the artificial insemination of male orangutans for human women be successful?
This idea has pressed the moral bottom line of human beings to the ground and rubbed, even poor and backward Africa refuses to agree, no matter how much money is given, it is impossible to find local female volunteers.
Moreover, the news of this experiment has also spread around the world, causing global indignation, not only Ivanov's team, but even the Soviet Union has been criticized by countries around the world.
France, which was the colonial ruler of the experimental area at the time, also forbade Ivanov to continue this experiment, otherwise he would be forcibly expelled.
However, Ivanov was unwilling to end the experiment like this, and before returning to the Soviet Union, he quietly captured several male orangutans and secretly brought them back to the Soviet Union to continue the experiment.
But in the end, all the experiments, without exception, failed, failed to create the "secret weapon" needed by the troops, and there are even sources that Ivanov did not complete the complete experiment at all.
So, under strong pressure from international public opinion, the failed Ivanov was imprisoned in a concentration camp, then exiled to Kazakhstan, and finally died in 1932.
Regarding the ape-hybrid experiment, the scientific community has subsequently given an explanation, hybridization requires the genomes of both sides to maintain a high degree of consistency, not only quantity, but also structure. But humans have 46 chromosomal strips, while great apes have 48 chromosome strips, so it is completely unfeasible to say that apes and humans cross.
But at that time, Ivanov's team did not know about this, and regarded the bottom line of human morality as nothing, and finally this cruel experiment appeared, which also made Ivanov finally die.
Science uses "ability to use tools" as the criterion for distinguishing humans from animals, but from a moral point of view, whether there is a moral bottom line is also another weighing standard. If you lose the minimum moral bottom line as a human being, what are the similarities and differences with animals and animals?
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Reference: Scientific Horizons – Scientists warn that "Terran warriors" may really appear.
