Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra: First Primate Chimeras Produced: e are slowly getting better at all this. A chimera is a creature formed from the cells of two separate individuals, in this case of the same species. In folklore, it is extended to include two separate species which we can not yet rule out.
I do not think that chimeras have any real place in our future except in the odd sophisticated experiment.
Yet I have made the conjecture that the cheetah was plausibly a created life form made by combining the chromosomes of a cat and a dog into one creature. I do not expect this to actually stand up but it remains untested. Two things suggest the possibility. The chromosome count is a simple addition of the cat and dog chromosome count itself. The second thing is that genetic work on the cheetah shows us that the line went through a genetic crisis 40,000 years ago in which only a few members existed.
That just happens to coincide with the first rise of modernism among humanity on Earth and the first establishment of the necessary ability. It is reasonable that we could pull something like this of in the next twenty years ourselves.
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