Yeti wool: expectations were not met again
British geneticist named Yeti
the ancient polar bear
Oxford University geneticist Bryan Sykes studied DNA from hair found in the Himalayas, which allegedly belong to the "bigfoot". According to him, it is almost identical to the one that was previously isolated from the bones of a Pleistocene bear from the Svalbard archipelago. The study, which was conducted for a documentary on the British channel Channel 4, has not been published in peer-reviewed journals. Sykes' words are quoted by The Independent (Has the Yeti mystery been solved? New research finds 'Bigfoot' DNA matches rare polar bear).
The analysis was carried out on two samples, one of which was found in the Ladakh region, and the other in Bhutan, 800 kilometers east of the first. DNA analysis showed a "100 percent match" with the genetic material of a bear jaw found in 2004 on Prince Karl Island near Svalbard. The details of the analysis are not given, but since only mitochondrial DNA was isolated from the Norwegian jaw, it can be assumed that the new study is about the same.
Sykes (the one who announced the opening of the bigfoot hunting season a year and a half ago) does not claim that polar bears like the one that lived in Norway 120-40 thousand years ago lived in the Himalayas. According to him, "it is likely that the brown bears of the Himalayas descended from bears that were the ancestors of the polar ones. Or it indicates a later hybridization between a brown bear and a descendant of an ancient polar bear."
The animal that was found in the Svalbard area was genetically closer to brown, not polar bears. At the same time, his diet, established on the basis of an analysis of the isotopic composition of teeth and jaw, coincides with the diet of polar bears. Thus, the name "ancient polar bear", which is applied to this animal from the Pleistocene, may be ambiguous.
Himalayan peoples have many pre-Buddhist legends associated with bigfoot. In the west, they gained popularity in the early 50s thanks to the testimonies and photographs of climber Eric Shipton. It should be noted that the hair of one of the "yeti scalps", which are stored in several Tibetan monasteries, has already been studied by Western scientists. In 1954, anthropologist Frederic Wood Jones (Frederic Wood Jones) was engaged in their microscopic analysis and concluded that the relic is a piece of skin, not a scalp. Which animal the sample belongs to, the anthropologist could not establish then.
(The last noise raised around the wool of the "undoubtedly snow" man ended up being, in fact, the wool of an opossum – VM.)
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