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Whoa. This is a lot like an idea I had back in 2000, for a fantasy setting in which two wizards from not-too-divergent branches of the Homo branch wanted to have kids, and created a female-only hybrid who could (in principle) reproduce with either side (though as of the events of the book, they were still being debugged, not yet considering having children - indeed, much of the book is centered on a certain extreme method of debugging).

In that case, though, males would be the same species as the father, while females would be the hybrid.

This real-life system is a considerably more involved process.

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7 hours ago, Drachefly said:

Whoa. This is a lot like an idea I had back in 2000, for a fantasy setting in which two wizards from not-too-divergent branches of the Homo branch wanted to have kids, and created a female-only hybrid who could (in principle) reproduce with either side (though as of the events of the book, they were still being debugged, not yet considering having children - indeed, much of the book is centered on a certain extreme method of debugging).

In that case, though, males would be the same species as the father, while females would be the hybrid.

This real-life system is a considerably more involved process.

I did something similar in a more SF setting.  A hyper-intelligent adventurer-scientist creates a velociraptor sidekick by reverse engineering it from a cut-and-paste of genes from different current-day earth creatures.  Then uplifts it to sentience. 

When the sidekick wanted a family of its own he had to build a mate.   Not just a female version, not just a female version that could make kids, but a female version that that could make kids with this first creature and whose children were themselves capable of breeding and producing fertile children.  With a more individuals created and tossed into the mix (built according to the expected final genetics of the new race) to keep the family from being horribly inbred.

"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to conceive..."

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