Richard Dawkins Wants to See a Humanzee

This ran in the Guardian the other day:
Richard Dawkins: How would you feel about a half-human half-chimp hybrid?
Dawkins speculates about how a human-chimp hybrid or the discovery of a living Homo erectus would change the way we see the world.

Well. Give Dawkins credit for realizing that the existence of an ape-human hybrid would blow the judeo-christian worldview right out of the water, but I didn't just come up with the idea years ago, I nearly did something about it! Here was my response as a comment on the Guardian site:

True confessions time. I had this idea a decade ago and became so obsessed with it I almost tried to do it. I thought the existence of such a hybrid might be the most astounding thing ever to happen to humanity, outside of contact from an alien intelligence. I thought it might knock us off the absurd pedestal we place ourselves on in relation to other creatures. It would prove once and for all that consciousness exists on a continuum and that all life is sacred (sorry Dawkins, I know you don't like that word.)

Well, I did not do it. Where to get the chimpanzee sperm? And I wanted bonobo sperm, even harder to get. I wanted to breed myself a little matriarchal humanzee. What I did do, was write a novel about it. Please search out Primal Tears by Kelpie Wilson if you want to read it.

I've had praise for the novel from artists and writers like R. Crumb, Greg Bear, Kate Wilhelm, John Robbins and David Rains Wallace. More at my website www.kelpiewilson.com.

Enjoy!