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Incorrect ... or at least incomplete. There's a factor you're overlooking. In a large somewhat homogeneous population, change is dampened / buffered because a significant portion of the population is not subjected to selective pressures, however, when a small population is subjected evenly to severe selective pressure, mutations / adaptations are reinforced, not absorbed and buffered back out. Ice age conditions could well have done that. Think about the effects of the Toba super volcano on human populations 75K years ago. Remember that genetically speaking, the two most diverse humans on earth are more similar than two unrelated chimps from the same troupe. Apply that to a small population of sasquatch ancestors with a bottleneck maybe down into the hundreds or less instead of the 3K to 10K humans who survived. The things you suggest are ridiculous suddenly become biological probabilities, not ridiculous at all. MIB

Don't forget that in the evolution of primates, there were a large number of species in Europe and the northern parts of Asia for much of the time we primates have been on the planet. Large size and cold tolerance go hand in hand. Simple extrapolation of great ape strength could well account for any "super strength" of sasquatch. As for night vision, that would a very selectable trait when one is evolving amongst the megafauna without the benefit of fire, in terms of not only locomotion, but also predator evasion, and hunting. Every slight advancement of enhanced night vision could prove an enormous edge depending on the specific context, couple that with a bottleneck or two where the ability to see at night even just a little bit better than the average bear was a part of avoiding extinction, and those that can't don't make it to the next dance, puts you and yours on the path to continuing and most likely improving that trait. Toss in progressively developing cognition, a hallmark of our primate family tree, and you have evolution occurring in both the physical and mental planes, which can't help but begin to impact each other and push it all the further.

I never expected or would have thought I would have such an emotional, "fight or flight" reaction, and MINE was to flee. Then again, it was 3am and I was never expecting at that exact moment I would actually run into one right then. Almost immediately, I had to intentionally stop and remember every piece of it because it seemed too surreal. To this day, I have a fragmented memory of it. I see "still images" in my mind of it as it happened, interspersed with a single segment of it in motion running off the road onto the shoulder and disappearing into the trees. I really thought I'd be in better, more full control of my faculties and emotions were I ever to have an encounter. It just didn't work out that way. It took until nearly 5:30am before I could calm down, relax and finally lay down and try to go to sleep. I was back up for the day about 3 or 4 hours later. It certainly gave me a new point of view to relating to witnesses whom I had interviewed and would go on to interview who were so emotionally rattled by their experiences.

LCB: No Sir, I was not affiliated with the BFRO until about 3 years ago. About the dogs walker; it is very typical - especially at night - that BF hunt and forage in pairs or groups. They've always got a few minutes to mess with humans that happen to be along their hunting route at the right time. No doubt the BF knew the man's route LONG before the actual encounter. Just wanted to let him know he should go elsewhere that particular night. Your opinions about their territory and their travel within in it are not much different from mine and others. They cover the areas needed to provide for their families. Right now, down South, they area sticking as close as possible to good, cold water sources. The lake in the area I usually prowl in was seven feet low yesterday. Found nothing but deer, hog, raccoon, and coyote tracks along the bare shoreline. The only BF tracks - one individual's - were found on a trail leading to a spring fed hole of water at about 1400 feet elevation. Going back ASAP and try to slip in and set out a conceal game cam. (Don't expect much, but might at least see their tracks around the spring.)