LAGC
11-30-2012, 03:12 AM
SALT LAKE CITY — A new study is getting attention for claiming to have found genetic evidence that not only does Bigfoot exist — the creature is also part human.
A 5-year-long DNA study currently under peer review — meaning there is no credible scientific evidence yet — claims the creature is a human relative whose origins can be traced to 15,000 years ago. The creature apparently came into existence when female homo sapiens mated with males of an unknown primate species, according to the research.
A team of scientists in Texas sequenced samples of purported Bigfoot DNA and found that mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited from the mother, was identical to human mitochondrial DNA. But nuclear DNA samples — those with material from both parents — appeared to involve a "novel, unknown hominin related to Homo sapiens and other primate species."
"Sasquatch nuclear DNA is incredibly novel and not at all what we had expected," Dr. Melba S. Ketchum, the team lead, said in prepared remarks. "While it has human nuclear DNA within its genome, there are also distinctly non-human, non-archaic hominin, and non-ape sequences."
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A 5-year-long DNA study currently under peer review — meaning there is no credible scientific evidence yet — claims the creature is a human relative whose origins can be traced to 15,000 years ago. The creature apparently came into existence when female homo sapiens mated with males of an unknown primate species, according to the research.
A team of scientists in Texas sequenced samples of purported Bigfoot DNA and found that mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited from the mother, was identical to human mitochondrial DNA. But nuclear DNA samples — those with material from both parents — appeared to involve a "novel, unknown hominin related to Homo sapiens and other primate species."
"Sasquatch nuclear DNA is incredibly novel and not at all what we had expected," Dr. Melba S. Ketchum, the team lead, said in prepared remarks. "While it has human nuclear DNA within its genome, there are also distinctly non-human, non-archaic hominin, and non-ape sequences."
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http://www.ksl.com/?sid=23161292&nid=1012
Don't any of you fools ever go questioning printerman ever again! ;)