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?

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There were rumors of a human/chimp hybrid decades ago:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

Despite the existence of Oliver, it still seems unproven:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_(chimpanzee)

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Decades you say😶😶

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The Nazis & the Japanese experimented with this as well. AFAIK neither faction ever achieved anything resembling success. Fertilization occurs, but then immediately stops as there’s no compatibility, and the cells die.

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Genetic testing basically puts a large amount of doubt on it though. More likely it wasn’t a hybrid than was.

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There used to be Neanderthals (homo sapiens neanderthalensis) and a few others, we basically interbred them out of existence.

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“Interbred them out of existence” is sort of a bleak way of looking at it. For a lot of people, they’re our ancestors. They’re a part of human history and heritage.

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bleak way of looking at it

in spartan voice THIS… IS… LEMMYYYYY!!

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This is the worst thing I’ve read online this month, including the person who said “perchance” to me in a DM

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While we did fuck them a lot, knowing us, I don’t think that’s what caused their extinction.

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Not so sure, except for a last few holdouts in Spain about 40k years ago, who were probably whipped out by natural catastrophe along with regular humans in that area.

I think we kept diluting their gene pool by having sex with them and out breeding them.

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What do you mean? We are still around.

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With everything you know about humans and our history of causing mass extinction everywhere we settle, of racial violence and irrational fear of anything that is a little bit different, you really don’t think there were any other contributing causes to the mysterious extinction of EVERY SINGLE NON-HUMAN HOMINID ON THE PLANET?

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It’s not really called “extinction” from more modern understanding I guess, more like assimilated over a long period of time and from species contact and living with each other.

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I assume closely related hominids which are now extinct. Neanderthal DNA is present in current human strains, which means they didn’t even speciate (though potentially successful gestation was rarer).

Why am I writing like an alien nerd observing humans?

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Your mom!

*sorry, 80s nostalgia hit hard for a second there.

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At least wait till I ask a question about a cow or something

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Tinder not working out as expected?

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Why else would I ask that question? Completely unrelated but you won’t happen to have any goats nearby, would you?

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