Experiments with the offspring of humans and orangutans, Soviet scientists found 5 women, the results are very realistic

In biology, there is a concept called "reproductive isolation", that is, due to various reasons, groups with close kinship do not mate under natural conditions, or even if they can mate, they cannot produce offspring isolation mechanisms. Many organisms in nature All confirm this.

However, scientists have very big brains, and sometimes they will make some bold attempts to verify their own ideas. For example, ligers (a cross between a lion and a tiger), a zebra (a cross between a horse and a zebra), etc. are all artificial The product.

Although the offspring of these species have some physical problems or cannot reproduce again, they can at least have offspring. This has led some bold scientists to guess that humans and orangutans are also closely related to each other. Can they breed offspring?

They are not limited to conjectures, but also actual actions. The most famous is the "orangutan" experiment in the former Soviet Union.

Humans and orangutans are the same ancestor, and their DNA and chromosomes have similarities. Therefore, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, a famous reproductive biologist in the former Soviet Union, took action.

Ivanov graduated from Kharkiv University in 1896 and studied in France. After returning to China, he worked in the Royal Institute of Experimental Medicine, the Central Livestock Reproduction Research and Experimental Station, the National Institute of Animal Husbandry and other departments. He is in the field of artificial insemination of animals. Have extremely high attainments.

He once adopted a method to increase the proportion of a male stallion from conceiving 20 to 30 females naturally to 500 females conceiving, which directly increased by more than 20 times and made him famous.

After that, Ivanov conducted insemination experiments on many kinds of animals, and the results were very good, which gave him bigger ideas.

In 1910, when Ivanov gave a speech at the World Congress of Zoologists, he proposed that artificial insemination could be used to try the possibility of interbreeding between humans and other primates.

However, his home country's economy was very tense at the time and couldn't afford to support him, so Ivanov went to the Pasteur Institute in France to seek support.

France is not keen on such things, but is willing to provide him with an experimental base in West African Guinea, and Ivanov needs to solve the rest.

Ivanov had no choice but to work abroad for a while.

Later, Tsarist Russia became the Soviet Union. Ivanov returned home and tried to persuade the high-level officials to obtain state funding. After everything was ready, Ivanov took his son and a student to West African Guinea in 1926 to start experiments.

According to a report in the "New Scientist" magazine, their first study was to use female orangutans to combine human sperm, but due to the poor conditions of the base in Guinea, they did not succeed in the end.

Ivanov was not discouraged, and planned to change the way for the male orangutan to combine with the human female. However, at this time the funds were exhausted, and Ivanov had to go back to China and request funding again.

This time it didn't go so smoothly. The Soviet Academy of Sciences believed that Ivanov had spent a lot of money to get nothing, and that he was still in a stalemate relationship with the locals in Africa, so he was no longer willing to support it.

However, Ivanov's "orangutan" experiment has spread in his country, and many scientists are also very interested. Among them, there are many influential celebrities. With them, the funds can be received.

And as soon as he heard that he wanted to recruit 5 women to conduct experiments, some teenage volunteers took the initiative to write a letter requesting participation. Ivanov selected five beautiful women from them and went to the Sukhumi apes breeding base on the Black Sea. .

Although the beginning went smoothly, the following journey made Ivanov want to cry without tears. The climate in the Caucasus is not very suitable for orangutans to survive. From 1928 to 1929, only one male orangutan met the experimental requirements. To make matters worse, the only one died of cerebral hemorrhage before long, and the experiment was helplessly stalled.

By 1930, a group of orangutans had been transported from Africa, and Ivanov was about to show off his skills, but unexpected news came.

The Soviet secret police arrested Ivanov on the charge of establishing a counter-revolutionary organization. He was then exiled to Kazakhstan. The experiment was completely stopped. Ivanov died in Almaty a year later. All the information went with him. No one conducts research publicly anymore.

Ivanov worked hard for many years, but in the end he found nothing, which is really regrettable, but the rumors about the "gorilla man" have never stopped.

Many people think that the Soviet Union has successfully cultivated a group of orangutans, but because of the appearance of unknown lesions, they can only terminate the experiment and release the test products.

There is also an evolutionary psychologist in the United States, Gordon Gallup, who said that the United States has successfully conceived female orangutans with human sperm and finally gave birth to "hybrid babies." Only because of fear of ethical issues, the babies could only be euthanized.

However, rumors are always rumors, and there is no clear evidence to support them, so don’t be credulous.

In the 1970s, there was an orangutan that looked particularly human like Oliver. It was originally bought by a couple of trainers in Congo, Africa.

Because it has no hair, walks upright for a long time, and likes to imitate human movements, it has attracted people's attention. The trainer and his wife believed that Oliver's strange goods were habitable, and they took it on a global tour, which caused a sensation.

After being in contact with humans for a long time, Oliver has actually learned to smoke and drink, and his demeanor is exactly the same as that of humans.

When touring to Japan, a scientist conducted a genetic test on Oliver, and the result was very shocking. It turned out to be 47 chromosomes! We humans have 46, orangutans have 48, but Oliver is so unique. Is it really the product of the successful Soviet experiment that year?

Professional institutions immediately conducted a more comprehensive test on Oliver, but the results showed that it was a purebred gorilla, not a hybrid product, but only due to genetic mutations. Many people regretted this statement.

I personally think that "orangutans" are like human clones. Even if they have technology, it is best not to appear in the future, otherwise they will bring serious social problems.