You’re not the only pervert who’s wondered about this. For starters, the fact that HIV made the jump from African primates to humans suggests that, excuse my French, somebody fucked a chimpanzee. But the “humanzee” has been an object of interest for more than a century. There was a serious attempt in the 1920s by a Soviet biologist, Ilya Ivanov, to create such a hybrid. Apparently Chinese researchers tried in the 1960s. Neither achieved any success. But then there’s this guy:
That’s Oliver the chimpanzee. He preferentially walked upright, had a flatter face and more pronounced nose than most chimps, and apparently preferred female companionship of the human variety. He was captured in the wild ca. 1960 and may represent a previously unknown chimpanzee species.
His DNA was tested and reportedly he was determined not to be a hybrid, but really, who can you trust these days? Given current political developments, humanzees may be more common that we thought.