Frame 352 of the Patterson Gimlin film

[Railko]

I want to believe that Bigfoot is a variation of homo (the species, not the sexuality) because of it's upright posture, breasts, and humanlike nose. Most apes knuckle walk, but Bigfoot is walking like a man. Big breasts are unusual on other apes, but on homo sapiens it's a normal trait, and the big nose could be an adaptation to a hotter climate, as it gets hot in the summer in North America.

That, or they could be a subspecies of Neanderthal, which would explain more of those traits (Neanderthals were more lumbering and thick-set than humans, and had wider noses). If so, then the large sagittal crest and hair could be an adaptation to living in a colder climate and having to eat more inedible vegetation in the winter.

[Magical Realist]

Footage of a distant possible Bigfoot running fast thru thick snow on a mountain slope taken thru a spotting telescope. Helicopter capture afterwards of the tracks. Pretty amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii6OUP7am5s

[C C]

I want to believe that Bigfoot is a variation of homo (the species, not the sexuality) because of it's upright posture, breasts, and humanlike nose. Most apes knuckle walk, but Bigfoot is walking like a man. Big breasts are unusual on other apes, but on homo sapiens it's a normal trait, and the big nose could be an adaptation to a hotter climate, as it gets hot in the summer in North America.

That, or they could be a subspecies of Neanderthal, which would explain more of those traits (Neanderthals were more lumbering and thick-set than humans, and had wider noses). If so, then the large sagittal crest and hair could be an adaptation to living in a colder climate and having to eat more inedible vegetation in the winter.

It would indeed have to be a very, very, very atavistic offshoot of archaic humans or even Homo Erectus.

There was the quasi-professional claim 13 years ago (below) that Bigfoot had some human ancestry, but it never went anywhere in terms of actual presented evidence. Homo Erectus would be the only member of the human line that could remotely mate with an ape-like member of the Hominidae family and produce a hybrid with a human nose. But Homo Erectus was long gone 15,000 years ago.

There's at least one tentative report of a human–chimpanzee crossbreeding experiment conducted in China in 1967, that resulted in a pregnant chimpanzee. But even the atheist Chinese government shut it down as if a form of blasphemy. Even if a living offspring had resulted from that, it's difficult to imagine the hybrid being fertile.

'Bigfoot' Is Part Human, DNA Study Claims
https://www.livescience.com/25047-bigfoo...estor.html

EXCERPTS: Genetic testing confirms the legendary Bigfoot is a human relative that arose some 15,000 years ago — at least according to a press release issued by a company called DNA Diagnostics detailing supposed work by a Texas veterinarian.

[...] For her study, Ketchum obtained three "whole nuclear genomes from purported Sasquatch samples. The genome sequencing shows that Sasquatch mtDNA is identical to modern Homo sapiens, but Sasquatch nuDNA is a novel, unknown hominin related to Homo sapiens and other primate species." (Mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA, is the DNA that resides in the cell's energy-producing structures, and is typically passed down from mothers, while nuclear DNA, nuDNA, resides in the cells' nuclei and is passed down from both parents to offspring.)

"Our data indicate that the North American Sasquatch is a hybrid species, the result of males of an unknown hominin species crossing with female Homo sapiens," the statement reads.

[...] So where's the evidence? Well, there is none. Not yet, anyway: Ketchum's research has not appeared in any peer-reviewed scientific journal, and there's no indication when that might happen. If the data are good and the science is sound, any reputable science journal would jump at the chance to be the first to publish this groundbreaking information. Until then, Ketchum has refused to let anyone else see her evidence.

Of course the history of Bigfoot is rife with exaggerated and premature claims about proof of the creature's existence. For decades, various types of evidence have been offered as final, definitive proof, ranging from Bigfoot hair to blood to dead bodies. Without exception, the evidence has always been hoaxed, misidentification or inconclusive.

Because Ketchum has released no information at all about her findings (nor have they been examined by outside experts), it's impossible to evaluate the validity of her conclusions. But an important clue can be found in her statement that "Sasquatch mtDNA is identical to modern Homo sapiens."

[...] another, simpler interpretation of such results: The samples were contaminated. Whatever the sample originally was — Bigfoot, bear, human or something else — it's possible that the people who collected and handled the specimens accidentally introduced their DNA into the sample, which can easily occur with something as innocent as a spit, sneeze or cough. No one outside of Ketchum's team knows how this alleged Bigfoot DNA was collected, from where or by whom. It could have been collected by the world's top forensics experts, or by a pair of amateur Bigfoot buffs with no evidence-gathering training...(MORE - details)