He Tried to Create a Human / Ape Hybrid - Ilya Ivanov and the 'Humanzee'

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Ilya Ivanov was a Russian biologist infamous for his controversial 1920s experiments to create a human-ape hybrid, often dubbed the "humanzee." Funded by the Soviet government, Ivanov attempted to inseminate female chimpanzees with human sperm, aiming to prove evolutionary links and serve political or ideological goals. When those efforts failed, he planned to inseminate human women with ape sperm, but the project was shut down before results emerged. No hybrids were ever born, and Ivanov was later exiled during Stalin’s purges. His ethically shocking work remains a dark chapter in scientific history.

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