‘Man-animal’ can be reality | Chimeras | hybrids | Indian Express

‘Man-animal’ can be reality | Chimeras | hybrids | Indian Express: "How about a man producing musk? Or, a man mating like a donkey, another as fierce as a lion, yet another toiling like a bull and, perhaps, one resembling ‘Ganapathi’.
Sounds very strange? But, if the recent developments in the genetic modification field are any indication, ‘Chimeras’ - human-animal hybrids - will become a reality some day in the future.

‘Chimera’, the first complete horror science fiction novel in Malayalam, by the city-based agricultural officer G S Unnikrishnan Nair, describes the other side of genetic modification.

Through a series of incidents occurring in different parts of the world, Unnikrishnan makes it clear that genetic modification is not just confined to the case of Bt Brinjal, but it can create a world of ‘Chimeras.’ (A Greek mythological creature composed of parts of many animals - the body of a lioness, with a tail that ends in a snake’s head and the head of a goat rising from the centre of the spine)."