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The Soviet Union’s human-ape hybrid experiment in 1930
5 girls and 11 gorillas participated, what was the outcome?
At the beginning of the last century, the Soviet Union was in rapid scientific and technological development. At that time, Soviet scientists were even encouraged to break the boundaries of morality and ethics to explore more unknown areas.
Ilya Ivanov was one of them.
Ilya Ivanov was born in 1870 during the Tsarist Russia period. He was intelligent and showed extraordinary talent at a very young age.
Especially in the field of animal breeding, he had extremely high attainments and was known as the “genius in the animal world” in the Soviet Union.
In 1896, Ilya Ivanov graduated from kharkiv university. Despite his young age, he had already made a name for himself in the field of biology.
Soon after, he was appointed professor at the school and began researching “Animal Breeding”.
Among them, two things are most representative and can better reflect his fantastic ideas. Even now, they are still jaw-dropping:
