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My wife had me buy her a bow. She practiced with it in the back yard on a foam deer. She wasn’t the best shot. She shot the legs off of the target and it fell over and I had to stand it back up and fix it. She went hunting at a couple of blinds I had set up for her. But I was in the oilfield mostly then, so my son went with her. He basically said that deer came and went but she never drew back on anything. It’s legal to shoot a doe here in archery season. But she simply could not bring herself to kill anything. She said she wanted a bear. So I took her bear hunting and I blew on a rabbit call from one side of the county to the other. I eventually called in a big black bear for her. And she acted stuptified that I had called in the bear. Later she admitted that she thought the rabbit call sounded ridiculous and would never work. She had a bad back then and was slow getting out of the rig so I gave her a pass. But now I think she was hoping it would just run off. And it did... It’s like pushing a wet noodle. Kinda like me and washing dishes or laundry.

This thread is directed at any biologists or someone with a strong background in genetics. Can one or more genetic markers in a genome be predicted? Since nearly all primate genomes are now in the GenBank's worldwide collection of DNA sequences then the markers that distinguish one species of primate from another are known and available to researchers. That being the case could one use the data to determine the markers one might expect to find that would separate a Bigfoot from a Human. An example might be a relaxed opsin gene in a primate's DNA sequence that could indicate a tapitum lucidum for night vision. Or perhaps a gen sequence that indicated an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex. Maybe one that one would expect to find in a primate that has full body hair. Can these types of genes be looked for and isolated for verification? If such genetic markers were found to be activated in the Human genome what would it indicate If the genetic markers one would expect to find in a Bigfoot could be predicted or predetermined then how far would such a theory go when looking at an alleged Bigfoot sample? Can specific genes be targeted in order to see if and when they were switched on and for how long? One would think that if a genetic marker could be predicted to be present then would the search of a suspected sample's genome be able to zero in on such indicators such as size, skeletal development, diet, whether there are canines or not, and other such isolated characteristics? Of course this would be aimed at suspected North American Bigfoot samples only since the closest markers would be Human ones. Alleged BF samples supposedly contaminated by Humans and tossed would be the focus. And of those Human "contaminated" samples, are they contaminated because they ONLY showed Human? Looking at this idea as a different approach to what might be expected as a genetic marker that would separate a Bigfoot from a Human. I would think there would be perhaps one or two sequences in the Great Apes that a Sasquatch might have which could be mixed into the Human genome that would result in producing certain characteristics that a Bigfoot has that is different than us. Some consistent .01% outlier in the Human genome? Could something like that be determined or hypothesized ahead of time that would result in physical differences between Humans and Bigfoot?

This is a great idea when out camping... for the slider...

I'm pretty sure a Bigfoot skull is many times the volume of a human skull. Not sure about brain size though.

Hiflier, I think that you should branch out with road crossings in the international genre. With all the dash cams in Russia, Almas should have their own reality show by now. Coming to a dash cam near you: "Almas and the roads less traveled", season one. Da. On the other hand, if you have watched Russian dash cams, Alamas might be avoiding roads like the plague. Maybe 50--50 chance of Almas road crossings.

The Laverty part of the PG film story is among the most interesting of all. He was the only government official involved, he had prior experience with a nest and footprints, his, private photos got into the public sphere almost immediately, yet he has remained very quiet about his side of the event. Laverty had heard of the filming while off for the weekend in Eureka, and on their way back to work, he went to the site and took the photos. It is clear that he was a "bleever", and he was wise to remain quiet about his opinions. His career turned out very successfully. AFAIC, "no evidence" strongly indicates no dead sasquatches. I have no reason on Earth to believe his story at all.

I'm thinking they aren't "human" but a very different parallel evolved hominid. Whlat if they should be in their own genus but we stop using human standards to explain them? What if its true that they are descendants of the something vastly more primitive, say Homo habilis, and they came to North America, went big, and evolved into something very different? I'm beginning to be of the opinion that they are both intelligent and not as closely related as we're assuming. Maybe we're second or third cousins, not first cousins on the hominoid bush. I think our own tool use is evidence of our intelligence, of course, but we are also incapable of living in the natural world without them. We cannot survive in the wild. We rely on tools to survive. That makes us vastly different than every other species on the planet, but does that make us better? We are assuming tool use makes us better in some way, superior. I dont think tool use makes us a stronger species, better adapted to survive. It sure looks like our poor planet would be better off without some of our "tools". We are clever monkeys, but not wise. I think its rather counterproductive to keep trying to find where bigfoot fots on our family tree when perhaps he has his own divergent branch. Just thinking out loud on the bus on the way to work. Im seeing lots of damaged humans and I'm sure some are quite primitive lol. I cant wait to get my truck fixed omg.

Smeja is a petty poacher, and his actions up to the shots and afterwards confirm that fact. In frustration, I'd like to feel sorry for the idiot, but I can't. If his story was true at all, all he had to do was bring the baby bigfoot out and dump it on the doorstep of the appropriate authority. The fact that the "steak" came back as bear literally confirms that he's a liar. Had it come back as "human" even the Fish and Wildlife authorities wouldn't have had a case against him.Neither would the DA, with no particular missing person. The most interesting aspect of the entire Smeja saga was the quiet authorities.........until that DNA sample came back as bear. Then they just as quietly prosecuted the moron........and remain quiet about the case to this very day. AFAIC Smeja is an idiot, and the authorities are a nest of vipers. Neither are to be trusted.

I think people still fear goblins and saber tooth cats. And when the sun goes down they light an artificial one to keep the dark at bay. Shelter is important. But if there is a goblin outside? The last place I wanna be is in a stupid tent. Keeping a dog close also gives us comfort. I really think our brains are still living in the Pleistocene.... Speaking of men vs. women? Direction. I was a mover for much of my life. The truck is loaded and the paperwork is signed. If the wife was handling the move? The directions I got to the new house were written out. Like a cake recipe. If the husband was handling the move? I got a drawn map. Now when my wife is in the woods? And it’s time to go back? She retraces her steps. The cake recipe backwards. The pickup could be north of us just 200 yards. But she lacks triangulation. Language. When women talk it’s covering 90 subjects in five minutes and I cannot get a word in edge wise. If I have something pertinent to say I will wait and when there is a break I will then divulge my thoughts. All of the women look at me as if to say.....that was FIVE minutes ago. Usually my wife and my three daughters. Women speak twice as many words in a day as a man. Multi tasking. I can watch TV. Watch the kids. Cook supper. Talk on the phone. ONE at a time. If I try to do all of them at once? I have no idea what the plot of the TV show is. The kids have set the dog on fire. Supper is burning. And the person I’m talking to on the phone has to repeat themselves just one more time. My wife? Can do all of them at once. Vision. My wife and I get into fights all the time. I’m wearing blue jeans and a blue shirt...... I MATCH! No....no you don’t my wife will say. Why I ask? Well.... your shirt is a robins egg blue and your pants are a navy blue..... AND? I say! She then proceeds to roll her eyes at me. I stopped buying her house stuff because the kitchen towels were a different shade of green than the curtains and the chinaware. Is there any wonder why finger nail polish comes in 5000 colors? Empathy. I have little. Maybe my favorite mule I have to shoot or my loyal dog. But I can kill lots of stuff without any remorse. In fact some of them I quite enjoy it. Such as shooting ground squirrels that dig up my pastures. My wife is super squeamish. She let a pack rat off the porch one night with a shovel sitting right next to the door..... You let it go I roared! You didn’t even swat at it!!?? It was scared she said....and had big sad eyes..... I rolled my eyes at her that time. Relationships. Men stick to a rigid hierarchy. The strongest toughest man leads when left to our own devices. A distinct pecking order. Top to bottom. Women on the other hand have many equal relationships like spokes of a wagon wheel. Sometimes a spoke is discarded and replaced. My guess is that women stayed close to the cave and the fire. They picked berries and tanned hides and watched kids and gossiped while the men were gone and multi tasked. That’s why they have a big vocabulary and can tell when fruit is ripe and have eyes in the back of their heads when kids are in trouble. Everything was based on loose majority rule as a group. While men were tracking and stalking mastodon 20 miles from the cave. They probably didn’t talk at all during the day. They used hand signs for fear of giving away their position. This was a singular pursuit but one slip, and the hunt could end in failure. Berries do not run away, or turn and charge you. But once the hunters cornered their prey? They stabbed it to death, and cut into pieces and they had better know which way home was. This would be a time of great joy and talking and laughter. Their families would be safe from starvation for a good bit. Not a time for sorrow or sadness. The leader gave the orders and the NCO’s executed them. Maybe one group would push animals into a ambush by the other group. Etc. Any how just something I was contemplating.... feel free to jump in. The moral of the story is that men and women both have strengths and weaknesses and we desperately need each other to lead a successful life. My wife just came down stairs and I read her this.... she approves this message. Fires and tents make her feel safe.

Because the genus Homo makes tools. Humans have bigger and more robust and increased opposable thumbs than other great apes. For tool making and use. Our thumb and brain had a arms race. Better weapons equaled higher diet of fat and protein that equaled bigger brains that equaled better weapons crafted by more dexterous hands and so forth and so on...... sharp flakes to the hand axe to the spear to the atlatl to the bow and arrow to the Bronze Age to the Iron Age to the Jet age, etc. Bigfoot either never took part in this or it did at the very beginning and lost it somehow on the way from Africa to North America. I do not believe it was a fully modern human that simply made a choice to not use tools, fire or shelter. If you and I tried that in the mountains? We would die.

Now that I have nothing to do on the weekends, since my truck is broken down, I've been rewatching some of my favorite videos. This is one of my favorites. It's the one I show folks who question if bigfoots might actually exist and why they behave as they do.

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