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Offline bijou

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British scientist hopes for 'yeti hair' breakthrough
« on: July 28, 2008, 02:50:28 PM »
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LONDON (AFP) - A British scientist said Monday he was anxiously awaiting the results of DNA tests on hair claimed to be from a yeti after initial examinations showed it had human and ape-like characteristics.

Ian Redmond, a biologist and expert in ape conservation, said the hairs found in the Indian jungle resembled samples collected by the conqueror of Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary, in the 1950s.

"Under the microscope, they look slightly human, slightly like an orang utang and slightly like the hairs brought back by Edmund Hillary," Redmond told AFP.

"These hairs remain an enigma. They could be a new species, but the DNA tests will hopefully tell us more."

The hairs were brought back from India this year by a BBC journalist, Alastair Lawson, who contacted Redmond and was put in touch with a team at Oxford Brookes University in south central England.

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It could be a new species, or not, I wouldn't put money on him having found the Yeti.  :-)
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Re: British scientist hopes for 'yeti hair' breakthrough
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2008, 03:43:23 PM »
The journalist guide in India probable brought him Yak hairs. Won't they be surprised.
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Re: British scientist hopes for 'yeti hair' breakthrough
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2008, 03:51:34 PM »
Theres lots of mystery in that part of the world still.  Why, even as recent as the early 1900's, there was evidence of a surviving group of Neanderthals in western China.
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Re: British scientist hopes for 'yeti hair' breakthrough
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2008, 03:58:54 PM »
What if the Yeti and Bigfoot were actually just a tribe of inbred people all having Hypertrichosis?  I have often wondered if maybe there was a family that had this congenital defect that were thrown out of their village a long long long time ago and then went off into the wild to live.  It would explain the human appearance and the excess hair.  After many years apart from civilization they would lose their modern human characteristics and revert to animal type behavior.

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Re: British scientist hopes for 'yeti hair' breakthrough
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2008, 11:23:36 AM »
Quote from: djones520 on July 28, 2008, 03:51:34 PM
Theres lots of mystery in that part of the world still.  Why, even as recent as the early 1900's, there was evidence of a surviving group of Neanderthals in western China.

It was just early Democrats.
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