Denisovans and Sasquatch

[norseman]

6 hours ago, Buckaloo said:

Perhaps I'm missing the overall point, but I don't necessarily accept that Sasquatch needs a gorilla-sized jaw or a sagittal crest just because it eats raw food.  Gorilla's have all of that because they're primarily herbivores that tackle super-tough things like bamboo shoots and tree bark.  Also, despite my huge respect for the late Jeff Meldrum, I don't think we have NEARLY enough data to decide whether or not Sasquatch is more ape-like than human-like.

 

Modern humans routinely eat raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, and I personally enjoy my steak RARE.  Omnivores are more than capable of handling many raw foods.  AND It's been established that Denisovans had significantly larger skulls, jaws, and teeth than Homo Sapiens.  So it's reasonable to speculate that they could handle raw food.

We have plenty of species in the fossil record that are bipedal but still have a sagittal crest. These species are much more closely related to us than to a Gorilla. I.e. Paranthropus Robustus or Paranthropus Boisei

 

The reason Denisovans, Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens lack a sagittal crest? Is because we cooked our food. That’s not to say we cannot eat things raw. But we certainly are not nearly as capable as a Paranthropus in doing so.

 

Now we are proposing hypothetically that a group of Denisovans crossed the Bering land bridge 200,000 years ago and have forsaken all Denisovan technology. Okay? Denisovans are not 8 feet tall and 800 lbs. Their bodies are used to cooking food and their hands are used to making stone tools.. So we believe that they have reverse evolved in 200,000 years to become something more primitive. They become bigger, they eat their food raw, and they don’t make stone tools.

 

Why is Dr. Meldrum’s skeleton out of line then?

[norseman]

2 hours ago, Buckaloo said:

Based on our limited knowledge so far, I am quite inclined to agree.  My statement was more aimed toward the gorilla skull comparison.  I also know that at one time, Jeff Meldrum believed that Sasquatch was more akin to a "wood ape" than a human-type.  I don't know if he ever modified his opinion on that.  Frankly, it's always been difficult for me to believe that Sasquatch could stay technically undiscovered for so long with a gorilla or chimp-like brain.  That's why the Denisovan theory is intriguing.

Denisovans have a bigger brain than Homo Sapiens do. Up to a whopping 1800 cc’s.

 

 

[norseman]

Most Bigfooters would say this is an “Ape” skull.

[norseman]

Here is a rabbit hole we can go down on human intelligence.