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by blorsh 3022 days ago
Assuming brain changes only, more like:

looks like a chimpanzee, can't really talk due to throat limitations, can't walk very well, but likes to read and write

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What would be interesting is if a humanzee turns out perhaps to be just as intelligent and perhaps fitter than humans due to hybrid vigor? Nobody really knows how intelligent a humanzee might bee.
I see his chimp hybrid and raise him from hominid to hominin. The Homo sapiens neanderthalensis genome is complete enough by now that we could arguably do the same thing with a Neanderthal man.

I think that could well be more informative to mankind's understanding of itself, and likely to cause less suffering for the created individuals.

Not that I particularly agree that either is a good idea.

Attempting to clone a Neanderthal hybrid (because there is no Neanderthal mother anymore so epigenetic is wrong) would probably be a better idea. Should tell us more about their capabilities.

They should also be relatively possible to integrate into society. As opposed to uplifted chimpanzee.