DNA to shed light on yeti claims

[xchrom]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18160673


Believers in the yeti suggest it could represent a survival of creatures such as the huge ape Gigantopithecus



A UK-Swiss team will use DNA testing to investigate the origins of remains claimed to be from yeti and bigfoot.

The project will examine hair, bone and other material from a collection amassed by a Swiss biologist - and will invite submissions from elsewhere.

Many cultures relate legends of hairy, humanoid creatures that lurk in the wilds, rarely seen.

But material claimed to be from such creatures have never been subjected to modern scientific techniques.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Prediction: DNA will reveal no yetis in the lot. Yetishts will continue to believe.

[TheWraith]

2. "Yetishists..." I love that.

And sheesh, I didn't know there were really still people who took the Yeti seriously.

[Ter]

3. Plenty of us take it very seriously

Gorillas were once though to not exist.

[SwissTony]

4. First I've heard of that.

Europeans used to think that all swans were white until they (the Europeans, not the swans) got to Australia.

[frogmarch]

5. Yes, the Yeti and Bigfoot believers will

continue to cling to the notion that these creatures exist, even though it's unlikely that DNA testing will ever support it.

Just like the crop circle people who continue to insist that crop designs were made by ETs ("Well, okay, maybe humans made some of them but the rest were made by aliens!&quot

I like this:

[dimbear]

6. It's not so that this has never been done. "Yeti" hair from Tibet

proved to be monkey.

[laconicsax]

7. That doesn't prove anything!

All life is connected! Quantum! Quantum! Yeti is real!

[SwissTony]

8. So the Yeti is a monkey!!! Who'd a-thunk it? nt.