can a female human get pregnant by an animal?
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ok i’m not on drugs & i’m not drunk but i’m seriously wondering if a female human has sex with a male animal (horse, dog, goat, etc) can she get pregnant?
In order for two different species to interbreed, they must be closely related – usually within the same genus, and at least within the same family. This means that they shared an ancestor with each other more recently than with other animals, and thus share much of the same genetic material. Beyond family level, two species cease to share enough genetic material for the egg and sperm to ‘recognize’ each other – the sperm of a horse, dog, goat and so on simply would not be able to fertilise a human egg (and vice versa).
However, it is likely that humans could interbreed with chimpanzees and bonobos, our closest living relatives. We are in the same family as all the great apes, and from a genetic point of view should be in the same genus as chimps and bonobos – we share more DNA with them than lions and tigers or horses and donkeys do with each other, and these species can interbreed. Placing ourselves in a separate genus to all other animals is more about human arrogance than it is about genetics. It is rumoured that a certain scientist once impregnated a chimp with his own semen, but got cold feet and destroyed the animal before the offspring was born. Of course, a human-ape hybrid is never likely to happen for moral and ethical reasons, and a good thing too – imagine a creature with the strength and aggression of a chimp and the intelligence and capacity for evil of a human. It’d be lethal.
no.
it’s part of the definition of species.
Well how many horse humans have you seen running around?
No in order for two different species to get pregnant, the chromosomes need to be fairly similar or exactly the same.
Take for example, you can breed a donkey and a horse.
A horse has 64 and donkeys have 62, when they cross breed to get a mule, the mule ends up having 63.
So, the answer to your question would be a double negative.
nope, Dna is not the same
It is theoretically possible to cross-breed humans and chimpanzees, since they share a large amount (about 95%) of the same DNA.
There is only a difference of one chromosome.
It is thought that inter-breeding of humans and apes actually had a part in our evolution.
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No.
Have you ever heard or seen anything about human non-human crosses or hybrids? No. It simply can not happen.
In Taxonomy, or the classification of animals, what separates species is called "genetic isolation". This means that animals, including humans, of different species cannot breed. Different sub-species can, but not different species. There are exceptions to this rule, as in Mules, which are a cross between a horse and a donkey. But, they are at least "close" evolutionarily.
The animal which we humans are the closest to is the Chimpanzee, but even it genetically splicing with a human on the ovum/sperm level is NOT possible under normal circumstances.
Science is always experimenting and breaking new ground, so you never know what the future may bring.
The only potential for a human crossbreed would be with a chimpanzee or bonobo since they are our closest relatives. An interesting thing about the dividing line of species, it’s not much of a line and is based on genetic isolation. The less contact two family lines have with each other, the more they drift apart, accumulating new material from mutation and losing old genetic material from decay (a trait not maintained will break down through the generations). What should be obvious here is, the dividing line of species only exists laterally in time: that is, between modern crocodiles, modern humans, modern cats, modern gorillas.
Go backwards in time and you get genetic merging instead of drifting, isolation becomes consolidation. Distant cousins have brother and sister as their ancestors and humans become close kindred with other (now extinct) hominids. Go back further and the ancestors of humans and the ancestors of chimps are still dating each other. There is no species line when you travel back through time. Even when just looking at modern species, that line can be fuzzy because the emerging species (like lions and tigers for example) may no longer be brother and sister but are still kissing cousins. If they remain isolated genetically long enough through geographic distribution, their great grandchildren will evetuaaly be too genetically different to hybridize at all. Yes, this can happen to humans too.
Thanks to the modern ability to travel anywhere, genetic lineages that were growing apart are now more likley to mix, thus we have one species of human. But say in the future we colonize other worlds and due to the difficulty of space travel those colonies rarely if ever mix with each other. This would inevitably, over thousands of generations, result in genetic drift and multiple human species, as separate from each other as we are from chimpanzees.
nope. otherwise you’d see a few dog/human babys running around.