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Bigfoot is "hybrid" of human and some extinct hominin

Adam Khor · 2012-12-01 00:23:36

I don´t really buy this, but I thought you may find it interesting or at least amusing. With all the recent genetic proof that humans once interbred with their close relatives it was only a matter of time before the Bigfoot people used that card too.…

01-12-2012 1:23am

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I don´t really buy this, but I thought you may find it interesting or at least amusing.
With all the recent genetic proof that humans once interbred with their close relatives it was only a matter of time before the Bigfoot people used that card too.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/11/27/bigfoot-is-part-human-dna-study-claims/

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#2 01-12-2012 1:26am

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The vet behind it was behind the sequencing of the equin genome so I dont think shes an idiot. I do think her conclusions are bs though. She claims bigfoot mtDNA is identical to our own which doesnt mak sense.

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#3 01-12-2012 1:02pm

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While I'm always one to say, "Never say never", from what I can tell some of the conclusions Ketchum has come to appear to be severely jumping the gun. It'll be interesting to see how the study manages in peer-review.

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