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In the 1920s, Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanov tried to create a "Humanzee," a human-chimpanzee hybrid. All experiments in Africa and the Soviet Union failed. Modern genetics confirmed this is impossible: humans have 23 chromosome pairs, chimpanzees 24.
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