We are left with a likely human hand but which in addition is reported by some as having marked neanderthal features. The Dna result shows that the sample is basicaly human too but does not rule out it may be something more. The appearance and size of the hand suggets it wouldnt seem to be from the large manimal yeti which is normally meant when people discuss the hymalayan version. But it could more easily be from the medium and human size ‘yeti’. Maybe a neanderthal or part neanderthal or something a bit closer geneticaly than the ususal european. Maybe something else !

Scat and hair samples are still available from W C Osmans hills collection, but is the source known? Potential of these samples isnt great but you never know!

What we have is an incomplete solution to this old mystery and there is always a chance that it can and will be solved.

Nailed it in one, Loren: that’s the crux of the whole thing, given we don’t know what yeti DNA looks like.

They’re people saying, “It’s human, move on!” but on that basis, “Otzi’s human – move on!” “Denisovans? Human – move on!” “Neanderthals? Human – move on!” “Laetoli footprints? Human – move on!”

Given it seems like every other day researchers’re finding less and less difference between human and ape DNA, that alone should send alarm bells ringing when someone peremptorily decides dispensing the mere term ‘human’ constitutes any kind of explanation of anything.

Because what if the remains of some ‘yetis’ are actually Tibet’s hitherto unknown equivalent of Mexico’s Wolf Boys?

What if the whole yeti legend evolved out of hypothetical Tibetan Wolf Boys – or something similar?

Well the truth is we’re never go’n'o find out so long as ‘human’ passes for a sufficient answer!

In discussing the size of the hands, what seems to have been left out is that Sanderson reported more than one kind of yeti from the area. Both large and small species. So the average human size of the hand, without considering maturity issues, does not rule out it was a mummified yeti.

Seems to me there is a lot to be found out about the TWO hand specimens and where they are now. Maybe there has been government intervention as the early history of the samples does not seem to have been a happy one. I would imagine there are with modern sensitivities, reason for some retreat from openness by Nepal authorities. Which ever version you accept of how the finger bone was obtained from the monastery, either by whiskey or cash! Could there be more potential yeti artifacts that under the right conditions of respect be made available for ethical examination?

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~ Loren

Doesn’t say anything about the possible existence of said “beastie.”

Let it go…let it go….

The huge billionaire cern project is quite a lot different to DNA tests on a suggested yeti or bigfoot sample and was the result they got anomalous or was the paradigm? For a start the yeti is a bit thin on official scientific credibility. Then it appears to be uncomfortably close to human affairs. Anything in that area of human identity is usually more political than scientific. Science has also often been shown to be mistaken or fraudulent, (as have yeti believers or non-believers).

Trapper said;

”Will we ever know the complete truth on this finger, no…. Even if they do decide to run nuclear dna on it and it comes back something strange, we would never hear about it. Scientists just dont want to have egg all over their faces.”

Though in my opinion this is over the top I think it does apply somewhat in reality even if its only shading, especially where careers or funding are at stake. You know how it is!

Always kinda wished he’d returned my Thunderbird photo before he died, though. My grandpa gave me that (just kidding).

ANYWAY…

Once again we are faced with it. The Truth vs What We Hoped Was True. If the Pangboche Hand is homo sapiens and nothing else than so be it.

The Quest Continues.

THIS we know…the world IS stranger than Mainstream Science (as it was taught in school) has ever allowed for. Ask any Quantum Physicist.

Not surprised at all that Nepalese monks would have a hand they thought was a yeti’s; sometimes faith isn’t about the truth.

I really don’t care what the truth is, I just want to understand it.

When physicists had anomalous results from a test of the speed of a beam of neutrinos – indicating these particles moved faster than light, contrary to a host of previous experiments and well-established dogma – we immediately heard about it, in the media and an open scientific meeting. Claiming the existence of a new primate is small potatoes compared to the degree to which these people put their reputations, and maybe livelihoods, on the line.