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Did you miss the part about only male offspring or Y chromosome being aborted in Homo Sapien mothers?The 1-4% Neanderthal DNA in humans is a result of female viable offspring being produced and absorbed back into humanity Without a male hybrid option that leaves female hybrids to either mate with Neanderthals or Humans. Either way this cross breeding was never going to give rise to a third hybrid species like its been suggested Sasquatch represents. And at 800 lbs and 8 feet tall I would argue that Sasquatch represents something much less related to Humans than Neanderthals are. And if they were a hybrid? The paternal mystery hominid? Would even be further removed from humans..... It didnt happen the way Ketchum says it did, I knew that but now its in black and white because the Neanderthal Y chromosome is extinct. "The researchers say it is possible that Neanderthal Y chromosomes were initially circulating in the modern human gene pool, but were then lost by chance over the millennia." "So far this is just a hypothesis, but the immune system of modern women are known to sometimes react to male offspring when there's genetic incompatibility." That's not exactly death to a hybrid hypothesis. Is it? Thing is, a few hundred years ago per the narratives of North, Central, and South America - there were gobs of giants - possibly giant humans - and we just don't see those any more, either. The Spanish Conquistadors, including their accompanying priests documented these giants in several engagements and meetings. One can find lots of Spanish reports as they were introduced to different portions of the New World running into giants after giants. Not just taller guys - giants. They were describing themselves as only coming up to the waists of some of those they met. Now, these giants are apparently gone. We have the red-headed giants that the Paiute's apparently wiped out the last of only 150 years ago - tracked and burned out in a large cave. "Others" who WERE here, but are apparently gone now. Who or exactly what they were - we'd probably have a lot better idea if the Smithsonian, etc., hadn't disposed of or hidden the multiple skeletons and skulls of large humanoids that were sent to them. And if the Smithsonian went to that extreme, there must have been some really shocking determinations made about some of these giants - human and/or otherwise. The report is a hypothesis, it's based on good data, but it also allows for other reasons to account for the lack of Y chromosomes in the current DNA tested, and they even state that this may occur often, but not always. And since this pertains specifically to Neanderthal and humans, one must assume the BF - or at least some of them - are Neanderthals. I have no problem with that as I have no idea, but it may be that there are other possible candidates - some not yet recognized in the fossil record. I could put every hominid and pithicine fossil in existence in the back seat of my truck. I think these anthropologists extrapolate way too many assumptions on too little physical evidence. And they seem uncommonly in a hurry to report findings that later they can't seem to follow up on, or they slowly back away from their early findings. Too many assumptions. But that's just me.

When I with with the Ontario govt. I investigated cougar reports. I was amazed how many people misidentified other animals for a cougar and specifically how many people knew nothing about wildlife or what different species looked like. t.

Another curious percentage would be, "How may folks actually see a BF, and never speak of it, versus those who do speak of it?"

I'd thought I'd put my two cents worth here. In my opinion a Researcher is a person seeking evidence or an answer to an ongoing mystery while at the same time realizing he or she could turn out in the end to be totally wrong. In other words what they are seeking an answer to could turn out to be, mythology and folklore. I personally don't think that, as far as the Sasquatch question go's, but I accept the possibility that it may be so. If one does research with a closed mind one way or the other then that person is more of a advocate, rather than a true researcher. Like a religious leader trying to push a faith, rather than someone seeking an answer to a ongoing mystery. Thomas Steenburg