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BIGFOOT' DNA SEQUENCED IN UPCOMING GENETICS STUDY
Five-Year Genome Study Yields Evidence of same sapiens/Unknown Hominin Hybrid Species in North America
Contact: Robin Lynne, mediadnadiagnostics.com, 231.622.5362
DALLAS, Nov. 24--A team of scientists can verify that their 5-year long DNA study, currently under peer-review, confirms the existence of a novel hominin hybrid species, commonly called "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch," living in North America. Researchers' extensive DNA sequencing suggests that the legendary Sasquatch is a human relative that arose approximately 15,000 years ago as a hybrid cross of modern same sapiens with an unknown primate species.
The study was conducted by a team of experts in genetics, forensics, imaging and pathology, led by Dr. Melba S. Ketchum of Nacogdoches, TX. In response to recent interest in the study, Dr. Ketchum can confirm that her team has sequenced 3 complete Sasquatch nuclear genomes and determined the species is a human hybrid:
"Our study has sequenced 20 whole mitochondrial genomes and utilized next generation sequencing to obtain 3 whole nuclear genomes from purported Sasquatch samples. The genome sequencing shows that Sasquatch mtDNA is identical to modern same sapiens, but Sasquatch nuDNA is a novel, unknown hominin related to same sapiens and other primate species. Our data indicate that the North American Sasquatch is a hybrid species, the result of males of an unknown hominin species crossing with female same sapiens.
Hominins are members of the taxonomic grouping Hominini, which includes all members of the genus same. Genetic testing has already ruled out same neanderthalis and the Denisova hominin as contributors to Sasquatch mtDNA or nuDNA. "The male progenitor that contributed the unknown sequence to this hybrid is unique as its DNA is more distantly removed from humans than other recently discovered hominins like the Denisovan individual," explains Ketchum.
"Sasquatch nuclear DNA is incredibly novel and not at all what we had expected. While it has human nuclear DNA within its genome, there are also distinctly non-human, non-archaic hominin, and non-ape sequences. We describe it as a mosaic of human and novel non-human sequence. Further study is needed and is ongoing to better characterize and understand Sasquatch nuclear DNA."
Ketchum is a veterinarian whose professional experience includes 27 years of research in genetics, including forensics. Early in her career she also practiced veterinary medicine, and she has previously been published as a participant in mapping the equine genome. She began testing the DNA of purported Sasquatch hair samples 5 years ago.
Ketchum calls on public officials and law enforcement to immediately recognize the Sasquatch as an indigenous people:
"Genetically, the Sasquatch are a human hybrid with unambiguously modern human maternal ancestry. Government at all levels must recognize them as an indigenous people and immediately protect their human and Constitutional rights against those who would see in their physical and cultural differences a `license' to hunt, trap, or kill them."
Full details of the study will be presented in the near future when the study manuscript publishes.
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Dr. Ketchum is available for interview or to answer further questions about the Sasquatch genome study and associated research on novel contemporary hominins at mediadnadiagnostics.com
c Copyright 2012 DNA Diagnostics
Five-Year Genome Study Yields Evidence of same sapiens/Unknown Hominin Hybrid Species in North America
Contact: Robin Lynne, mediadnadiagnostics.com, 231.622.5362
DALLAS, Nov. 24--A team of scientists can verify that their 5-year long DNA study, currently under peer-review, confirms the existence of a novel hominin hybrid species, commonly called "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch," living in North America. Researchers' extensive DNA sequencing suggests that the legendary Sasquatch is a human relative that arose approximately 15,000 years ago as a hybrid cross of modern same sapiens with an unknown primate species.
The study was conducted by a team of experts in genetics, forensics, imaging and pathology, led by Dr. Melba S. Ketchum of Nacogdoches, TX. In response to recent interest in the study, Dr. Ketchum can confirm that her team has sequenced 3 complete Sasquatch nuclear genomes and determined the species is a human hybrid:
"Our study has sequenced 20 whole mitochondrial genomes and utilized next generation sequencing to obtain 3 whole nuclear genomes from purported Sasquatch samples. The genome sequencing shows that Sasquatch mtDNA is identical to modern same sapiens, but Sasquatch nuDNA is a novel, unknown hominin related to same sapiens and other primate species. Our data indicate that the North American Sasquatch is a hybrid species, the result of males of an unknown hominin species crossing with female same sapiens.
Hominins are members of the taxonomic grouping Hominini, which includes all members of the genus same. Genetic testing has already ruled out same neanderthalis and the Denisova hominin as contributors to Sasquatch mtDNA or nuDNA. "The male progenitor that contributed the unknown sequence to this hybrid is unique as its DNA is more distantly removed from humans than other recently discovered hominins like the Denisovan individual," explains Ketchum.
"Sasquatch nuclear DNA is incredibly novel and not at all what we had expected. While it has human nuclear DNA within its genome, there are also distinctly non-human, non-archaic hominin, and non-ape sequences. We describe it as a mosaic of human and novel non-human sequence. Further study is needed and is ongoing to better characterize and understand Sasquatch nuclear DNA."
Ketchum is a veterinarian whose professional experience includes 27 years of research in genetics, including forensics. Early in her career she also practiced veterinary medicine, and she has previously been published as a participant in mapping the equine genome. She began testing the DNA of purported Sasquatch hair samples 5 years ago.
Ketchum calls on public officials and law enforcement to immediately recognize the Sasquatch as an indigenous people:
"Genetically, the Sasquatch are a human hybrid with unambiguously modern human maternal ancestry. Government at all levels must recognize them as an indigenous people and immediately protect their human and Constitutional rights against those who would see in their physical and cultural differences a `license' to hunt, trap, or kill them."
Full details of the study will be presented in the near future when the study manuscript publishes.
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Dr. Ketchum is available for interview or to answer further questions about the Sasquatch genome study and associated research on novel contemporary hominins at mediadnadiagnostics.com
c Copyright 2012 DNA Diagnostics
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I guess you ran into Shaquille O'Neal.
LOL!!! [:D]
Her research is tainted. The samples came from Michigan? Id be more than doubtful. She wont let her research be reviewed.
Same as taking samples off a used NBA court.
Evidential sustainability.
Epistemic validity.
She stated "we've been able to absolutely prove that"...
To Prove means literally, 'to put to the test'. To test. That is all.
[Think of Ford Motor Company's "PROVING GROUNDS".] It's where they test vehicles for viability and reliability.
There is as yet no scientific predictability, repeatability, peer testing -not to mention consensus on any level- , or epistemic validation to any degree.
Unless it's predictable, repeatable, and testable by experimentation and/or observation, it's not even a theory. It remains a hypothesis. And a failed hypothesis at that.
Try again.
Don't worry your pretty little head, Dr. Ketchum. Ya can't kill what ya can't see.
Where did she obtain samples that she knows for a fact came from a Bigfoot and that she can guarantee weren't contaminated in any way?
Odd that she fails to address this in her press release.
My 2% of a buck.
I'm not convinced that the hominid exists...nor am I convinced that it doesn't. I'm open to the strong suggestion that there's something that is decidedly different or "other" lurking around in the deep woods.
There have a been a lot of sightings of this thing for too many years...centuries even...and by clearly sane and reputable people. Some of them have probably seen bears, I'm sure, while others have likely been overactive imaginations...but statistically, it's not possible that all of them have been cases of mistaken identity or seeing things in the shadows that aren't really there. The "Smoke/Fire" analogy.
The bottom line is that we don't know until we know. After all, it was general knowledge that the Coelacanth had been extinct for over 50 million years...until one made an appearance and rocked the science community.
Given the fact that no such creature has actually been identified back into prehistory and given that a fair number of such creatures have to exist to make the population viable, my doubts override my hopes.
Population requirements aside there are other considerations needing to be addressed. Even if I remain open to the idea of Bigfoot, then I have to point out that hominids in the human family do not mature quickly. Usually a matter of several years at minimum and often much longer. This is a huge problem as youngsters are difficult to raise and secrecy over a period of years would be difficult if not entirely out of the question.
Then the matter of climate. Hominids do not hibernate nor do they have that capacity as far as I'm aware. Thus, how would a large hominid survive undetected in snow country? And even if hibernation was possible it seems unlikely a den wouldn't have been discovered somewhere down through thousands of years.
How about our human population and technology? If we were to leave every other thing aside, let's consider trail cams. I find it unbelievable that with the millions of cams out there that Bigfoot has avoided every single one.
Then the hybrid theory. Cross a horse and a donkey and come up with a mule. And mules are sterile as are almost all such crosses. Even our closest genetic cousins in the ape family are too different to produce even a hybrid. And now someone tells us a viable population of hybrid humans existing among us for 15,000 years and not a single verified example? Now that's a good story!
So for the moment I'll call BS. The Onion has again struck.
Contact: Robin Lynne, mediadnadiagnostics.com, 231.622.5362
Dr. Ketchum is available for interview or to answer further questions about the Sasquatch genome study and associated research on novel contemporary hominins at mediadnadiagnostics.com
c Copyright 2012 DNA Diagnostics
Damn right she's available
for the right price $$$$ and for her 10 minutes of fame [:D]
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
There was a panel of 'experts' with 10 degrees explaining their thoughts about these sightings.
One guy said something I had never thought of before.
IIRC, his theory was that these 'creatures' were simply human beings with odd genetic mutations that went wild per se.
Basically they lived in the woods, never bathed and had a lot of body hair. They would try and protect their turf by throwing rocks and jumping around screaming and grunting.
Kind of made sense to me.
Imagine some freakish looking human, probably wearing a bear skin or the like for warmth, with very long hair, and beard.
What would you think if you saw something like that from a distance tossing stones at you while screaming like a madman.
Made more sense than the other things I have heard.
I have a hard time believing it but it sure look like they have proof!
That's a long way from proof.
quote:Originally posted by cartod
I have a hard time believing it but it sure look like they have proof!
That's a long way from proof.
This genius will change your mind James.[;)]
Now that is a BIG FOOT print.[:D][;)]
This genius will change your mind James.[;)]
Yep, that little girl erased all question from my mind. [:D]
The real question is human hybridized with what?
Show me a pile of Big feets poop and I'll consider it.
Bigfoot poop