>>14088851I actually don't think so. At least not in any near future. Hybridization across different numbers of chromosomes is likely to prove incredibly difficult. At best you'll get people modified to look like certain animals, more like a very good cosplay. However that's on our side of the issue. I think the most likely thing will be uplifting animals and giving them more humanoid forms. While it does sound like just the stuff of fetishes there's actually good reason for it. The world is designed around us. Designed by us, for us, to be lived in by us, to be used and interacted with by us. Something like a dog trying to live as a sapient creature in our world but with just the body of a dog would effectively be an extreme physical disability. The four main points I see as being the focus of alteration would be their forelimbs, a bipedal stature, ability to talk, and similar diet, albeit with the latter being a slightly lesser priority as it could be individually accounted for. Hands are effectively a requirement, and with dexterous hands more or less requires no longer using them for locomotion, thus simultaneously bringing in bipedalism. Speech is obviously something that's not a necessity, given how many mute people there are and how many people can only speak one language, but it'd make things generally much easier if we could understand them as easily as they could understand us aside from writing. Diet is mostly just a thing for their convenience. Something that's a "well while we're at it" type of thing. Much more than that and I think you start to run into serious questions of whether it can still be considered a close descendant of the original species. Though that's more or less just the Ship of Theseus but applied to a biological concept, so it's probably best to not speculate too much on such a philosophical question.
>>14088914>armpits are just regular furI'll never understand why some people prefer to give them human armpit hair.
>>14088952Paws*
