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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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