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Even more bold, it could bring back early hominids


That would probably be more difficult due to ethical considerations.


The ethics could flow in the other direction. If we wiped out homo neanderthalensis, de-extincting a breeding community of them could be restorative justice.


> de-extincting a breeding community of them could be restorative justice

A non-voluntary breeding program of sapient beings has serious ethical issues, especially when it exists to assuage a weird sense of historical guilt.


The Soviets were extremely close to making human-chimp hybrids. In 2019 human-monkey chimera embryos were successfully produced though they were only allowed to develop for a few weeks. Development was stopped prior to the development of a nervous system




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