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Good afternoon. I live in northwest Arkansas and have been interested in pretty much anything Bigfoot related since I watched Legend of Boggy Creek at 13. Retired military and live to hike and camp. Still working.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3437888/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/monkeys-make-stone-ldquo-tools-rdquo-that-bear-a-striking-resemblance-to-early-human-artifacts/ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/19/monkeys-smash-theory-that-only-humans-can-make-sharp-stone-tools https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/10/monkeys-unintentionally-make-sharp-edged-stone-tools/504602/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2363882-stone-flakes-made-by-monkeys-cast-doubt-on-ancient-human-tools/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/19/498421284/those-ancient-stone-tools-did-humans-make-them-or-was-it-really-monkeys

It’s sobering when we know 1000 times more about a subject than TV producers do….. what else does this apply to?

I turned it off as well.

Interesting stuff here! I'm intrigued by the concept of archaic sapiens forms comingling with pre-european neanderthals, slipping them the sapienesque mitochondrial DNA.. Then the part about smaller population size leading up to the accumulation of less favorable genes which then allowed the sapiens x chromosome to be so easily ushered in to the Neanderthal genome. They pondered what benefits were had through this substitution, and I can't help but wonder if it could be something so simple or basic, what with these two "substitutions", as those Neanderthals with the "upgrade" looking just a bit more sapiens than the neighbors, and there by tolerated by the actual sapiens longer, like they were less alien looking so they didn't have to die, right off. This does also somewhat support the idea that we sexed the other hominids out of existence....