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DNA Analysis Finds That Yetis Are Actually Bears (popsci.com)
schwit1 shares a report from Popular Science: University of Buffalo biologist Charlotte Lindqvist and her international team in Pakistan and Singapore provided the first strong evidence that presumed yetis are actually bears. They published their results in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Tuesday. Icon Film secured nine samples that purported to be genuine yeti artifacts, and Lindqvist gathered 15 samples from known bear populations. By sequencing mitochondria from all these sources, she and her fellow researchers were able to determine that all but one of the yeti artifacts actually came from local bears. That last sample was from a dog. They also figured out that Himalayan brown bears split off from the rest of the regional bear population several thousand years ago, which is why they're so genetically distinct from most other brown bears. Living in geographic isolation for so long has separated them from other Asian brown bears, and even from their relatives on the nearby Tibetan plateau. They even look different. But prior to Lindqvist's work, it wasn't clear just how long Himalayan bears had been on their own. Researchers will need higher-quality samples to figure out the whole picture, but even this small step is major for a species that's hardly been studied.
I didn't realize Democrats lived in trailer parks. Good to know.
So, dehumanizing people just because they live in poverty. Well, aren't you a gem, Adolf. Modded up, too. Stay classy, Slashdot.
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If you ever tune in to the Bigfoot/Sasquatch enthusiast groups you will find that there are tons of sightings, and lots and lots of physical evidence, hair, coprolites, stuff that would be loaded with Bigfoot DNA. It it was real.
Despite the fact that anyone can run a DNA test that identifies species for under $100 today, and that finding a single sample of DNA from an unknown primate would make the person finding it famous forever, not a single specimen claimed to be from a Bigfoot has ever been found to have anything but a known animal (usually human, sometimes bear, or other known mammal) as its source.
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They don't. A certain level of in-breeding is required to live in them. Only conservatives, some quite well off, meet the necessary standards.
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