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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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[–] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago

Is 8chan still a thing? Honestly I like the concept of image boards and thought it was cool of 8chan to allow you to make your own boards. But of course image boards attract the worst

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago
[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago

As other commenters point out, not since the extinctionof Neanderthals, Denisovans, etc. But even if it were possible, the hybrid would not be fertile: our chromosome 2 is a fusion of two chromosomes that are separate in other related species, so there's no way meiotic crossover recombination could possibly work.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Furries irl 😏

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No.

The biological definition of a species is β€œa group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring” (in other words, the offspring need to also be able to reproduce; there are instances, such as mules, where two species reproduce but the offspring cannot themselves reproduce)

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I don't think that definition matters, considering the fertility of offspring is irrelevant to OP's question.

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