What an adventure! The author of The Seven Daughters of Eve and other books about
what DNA proves to us decided to go on a scientific quest for the creature known as Bigfoot or Yeti, and that quest takes him to the Pacific Northwest, to Russia, and to the Himalayan Mountains - if not on foot himself, then in interacting with the witnesses and other scientists on the same quest. And as I felt in reading his other books, this man as an author knows how to take his reader along with him, as he seriously questions, sometimes believes, but holds to the science.
One the word was out, Sykes received at least a hundred hair samples that people who had sightings collected, some recently, some long held, and first using microscopes to determine that the hair was a hair, they tested the best 37. And the result was...
Suspense is killing you, I know!
That none of them proved to be of an unknown creature. Most were bears, canine, or deer. However the focus was on DNA from hair, that doesn't exactly mean the quest is over. Russian scientists are particularly hopeful.
Some scientists examine footprints and what happens to them in the snow melt.
Some track down human anomalies.
And if you want to know what is supposed to attract them, well, leave out green crisp apples and some chocolate!
OK, there is never going to be a genealogy that takes you all the way back to a Neanderthal. However, there are people alive whose DNA is very rare, especially for where they are living, and the story about the "wild woman," will intrigue you.
As you read this book, you'll remind yourself that even scientists of Sykes caliber are human.
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