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Re:Crazy ants’ strange genomes are a biological first by EamonnMR on Friday April 07, 2023 @10:48AM (#35482113)
Not unheard of, just rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chimera

And worth noting that if all goes well, you'd never know you were chimeric.

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Re:Crazy ants’ strange genomes are a biological first by Brian_K_White on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:52PM (#35487478)
Unheard of. The wikipedia article is about individual flukes not species norms. This was covered in the article.
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Re:Crazy ants’ strange genomes are a biological first by thaumasiotes on Saturday April 08, 2023 @02:54AM (#35491165)
A human chimera would not have some cells with a genome from one parent and other cells with a separate genome from the other parent. That's not the way human reproduction or genetics works.
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