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EamonnMR
1167 days ago
Not unheard of, just rare:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chimera
And worth noting that if all goes well, you'd never know you were chimeric.
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thaumasiotes
1166 days ago
A human chimera would not have some cells with a genome from one parent and other cells with a separate genome from the other parent. That's not the way human reproduction or genetics works.
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Brian_K_White
1167 days ago
Unheard of. The wikipedia article is about individual flukes not species norms. This was covered in the article.
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