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Good God I finally made it to the end of that. It was informative, boring and fun at the same time. With all that was said why can’t the answer be it was built by hoaxers? Meldrum could have been more clear but it seems he pretty much said what it was. I agree with Norse in doubting it’s homo sapien. BF is just different, I don’t see how a breeding population could be the same but clearly different. Feral humans would look like feral humans. So obviously the next step would be getting Meldrum and Disotell to admit why they used the wrong words in describing this and torture them till we get the truth! JK of course.

UC Santa Cruz has excellent facilities, faculty, and reputation for DNA analyses. It is good to get more scientists interested. Sometimes it's just a matter of connections and cost.

Have you hunted big game or engaged in military combat, Ed?

The issue I've always had here is that the "we" never happens because that same "we" would never band together to do anything. It's purely nothing more than a pipe dream.

^^^ Manual dexterity....hammerstones....anvils = Game....set....match.

Wrong. From Nature: A 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, USA " ..... Th/U radiometric analysis of multiple bone specimens using diffusion–adsorption–decay dating models indicates a burial date of 130.7 ± 9.4 thousand years ago. These findings confirm the presence of an unidentified species of Homo at the CM site during the last interglacial period (MIS 5e; early late Pleistocene), indicating that humans with manual dexterity and the experiential knowledge to use hammerstones and anvils processed mastodon limb bones for marrow extraction and/or raw material for tool production. "

https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/07/an-honest-attempt-to-understand-the-bigfoot-genome-and-the-woman-who-created-it/ Ultimately, she saw the collection of contradictions as a sign of her own sincerity. "I'm not sure why they're like they are. I don't think anybody is, and I think that gives people a real problem. But we can't change how the results came out. And I'm not going to lie about them, and I'm not going to try to make them fit a scientific model when it doesn't." After an hour-long phone conversation, there was no question about whether Ketchum is sincere in her belief that bigfoot exists and if her data conclusively proves that it's worthy of protection. But, at the same time, it's almost certainly this same sincerity that drove her to look past the clear problems with her proof. ===================== So the author sees Melba as sincere in her belief in Bigfoot. I concur. The author also questions if that’s WHY she cannot see her obvious mistakes…. Thats because Melba Ketchum is working backwards from a belief and she is pounding her “evidence” of a square peg through a round hole. I would say he is being very generous with Melba Ketchum. I would put her in league with Todd Standing. Except she has more sciency gobbley goob behind her. But at least Todd was original and not so lazy as to use a Chewbacca costume that could be spotted from SPACE.