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No doubt the frequency of sightings, as reported, has steadily risen. You could propose any number of theories for that, although I'm not sure how you test any of them. So, here's my short list: -The population of BF is increasing as the size of their habitat decreases, bringing them into more frequent contact. -More people are taking part in more outdoor activities, bringing them into more frequent contact. -The rise of computer connectivity makes it much easier for witnesses to get in touch with those who compile these reports. -The rise of computer connectivity allows witnesses to not feel as reluctant to file reports...a "strength in numbers" effect. -The rise of computer connectivity allows witnesses to research the details of their sighting, leading to confirmation and reporting. -The rise of computer connectivity permits us, for the first time, to know how many sightings are reported and view them in one place and this doesn't necessarily mean there are more sighting, only better ways of compiling them. -The rise of computer connectivity encourages a "me too" form of hoaxing. -Sasquatches are becoming increasingly habituated to human contact. -Any combination of the above.

I just thought of something you might be looking for based on a experience I had. Like you I have spent a lot of time looking at bones and deer carcuses. Then one day I got presented with one. It was placed right by the drivers door of my truck. You might expect that at some point. Not sure what you can do with it but I would not be at all surprised if they did that. Even more devious of them would be to present one killed by other predators that do not have BF teeth marks. I can well imagine you examining elk bones has to be interesting to them. As far as the interval cameras I did have one thought where they might be of some use a night. If deployed and active at night, they might settle the question of self illuminated eyes. I think self illuminated eyes are unlikely but if they are, it should be testable. I try to put myself in the head of BF. Let's say we hang a Plotwatcher and a BF notices it. You the BF sneak around and peek at it from the side. Nothing happens. You throw a rock in front of it to see if it triggers like other ones you have encountered. Nothing happens. You try a branch. Nothing again. Umm that is different than before. You sneak around behind and put your hand in front. Nothing happens again. That is different. Finally you get close in front and examine the thing. Nothing seems to happen or at least it does not emit any light. All of these have been observed on game camera pictures. However, if we know a camera like a Plotwatcher produces no light, and we see eyes in an otherwise dark image, we can conclude that the eyes had some type of self illumination or the back ground would show some level of illumination. Just a thought.

Well add another line to the homo human line. I need to find me a BF burial cave. Scientific American: "In the brand-new fossil vault at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in South Africa, shelf space is already running out. The glass-doored cabinets lining the room brim with bones of early human relatives found over the past 92 years in the many caves of the famed Cradle of Humankind region, just 40 kilometers northwest of here. The country's store of extinct humans has long ranked among the most extensive collections in the world. But recently its holdings doubled with the discovery of hundreds of specimens in a cave system known as Rising Star. According to paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his colleagues, who unearthed and analyzed the remains, they represent a new species of human—Homo naledi, for “star†in the local Sotho language—that could overturn some deeply entrenched ideas about the origin and evolution of our genus, Homo."

Hello southernyahoo, I still propose that even if a sample returns as Human or mostly Human one should STILL search for a repressed S opsin or a repressed M/L opsin gene which would be a sign of having good nocturnal vision or a tapatum lucidum. Maybe geneticists did look and there were normal genes present such as Humans or Apes would have- so no night vision and therefore those genes get no mention? If the samples come back Human with weak or mutated opsin genes? That would be a flag to note and more members shout be writing to these geneticists and inquiring about this.

It can be classified, but I doubt in an official manner. Plus it wouldn't be a proper name of their kind to just call them bigfoot, it will be hard to erase that term. If they can mate with modern sapiens with fertile offspring then they would be human with human rights and also subject to our laws governing us. It would not work out for them. That's a major road block. FWIW, I've been on the genus homo coarse from day one on this forum and going on 9 years ago. far before Ketchum came along. The evidence has always spoke the same things to me, "human" but different enough to not fit in our society. It may be that the differences can be found in the nuclear DNA and that would classify it as technically another species, but there would be a political correctness problem in doing so should it be proven they have modern sapiens mitochondria. I want to know what they are for sure, and it can be done with DNA, but most likely only on a personal level, due to all the second guessing that goes on about provenance of samples. It takes multiple independent results from a sample that tests human and which you know should not be, to accept they are human without seeing the creature. I know my sample should not be from an ordinary modern human based on all observations at the time of collection, the morphology etc. Yet it has tested human once. This is why I wanted it tested again and again. Based on other testing of samples outside Ketchum's study, it's clear that no nonhuman ape DNA has ever come from the samples, so I'm not expecting that to change. The descriptor of " wild human" is dominant when experts and witnesses relate their experiences and impressions of the evidence. The collective of that is not likely wrong in my opinion. If I add the tracks and morphology there, plus the audio recordings from people I think are legit and which contain the speech sounds, my hypothesis gets even stronger, while yours requires you to try and shout all the evidence down leaving you with little to none, for a creature that is so well dispersed across the country and should be much easier to find without human intelligence. A "wild" human could simply get a haircut and rejoin modern society, as there would be no difference of any note. Unless, of course, it was Homo Erectus and farther back, in which case language would be an issue and at that point you are only talking about the same Genus not the same species. Well you see, I don't discount some of the differences. One of those is the profuse hair covering, and the lack of cuts on the individual hair strands that are found is one of the tells, that it lives in the wild........ isolated from the barbers. By most other appearances, they would correspond well to human hair with some difference in pigmentation and medulla width if present. You should consider that it would be a dangerous game to declare there is another extant member of homo, yet not considered to be human. Our legal system likes things to be black and white with no grey.