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Bigfoot References
Chapter 1: Bigfootery Explained
1. Draper, George. “Growing Mystery – Animal-Men of the Northwest.” The San Francisco Chronicle, December 6, 1965.
2. Pseudoscience is defined as “a system of theories, assumptions, and methods erroneously regarded as scientific.” Merriam-Webster.com, 2023.
3. Ghose, Tia. “Ancient Underwater Forest: 50,000 Year-Old Swamp Discovered by Scuba Divers off Alabama’s Coast.” LiveScience, July 9, 2013.
4. Seeking the Koko’ Ta’ay. Investigating the Origins of Little People Myths in Taiwan and Beyond. Ed. Tobie Openshaw and Dean Karalekas. Brill, Germany, 2024.
5. Reid, Nick. “The search is on for a Bigfoot in New Hampshire.” Concord Monitor, July 16, 2006
6. Nappi, Carla. “On Yeti and Being Just: Carving the Borders of Humanity in Early Modern China.” In Aaron Gross and Anne Vallely, eds. Animals and the Human Imagination. Columbia University Press, 2012, p.58.
7. “Bigfoot and the Yeren.” The University of Chicago Press website, 2009.
Chapter 2: A Guy in an Ape Suit…or Not
8. Spitzer, Gabriel. “Bigfoot ruined this man’s life, then gave him a fresh start.” KNKX, August 8, 2020.
9. Nin, Anaïs. Seduction of the Minotaur. Swallow Press, Colorado, U.S., 1961.
10. “Bigfoot: Man or Beast?” A documentary by Lawrence Crowley, 1972.
11. Audio of Lyle Laverty, interviewed in 1992 and 2017 by Daniel Perez, author and publisher of Bigfoot Times.
12. “In Search of…The Swamp Monster.” Season 2, episode 16, March 4, 1978.
13. John W. Green, a speaker at the annual meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration, Kalispell, Montana, 2003.
14. Lei, Richard. “The Reliable Source.” Washington Post. March 7, 2004.
15. Historical temperature data obtained from weatherunderground.com.
16. Bob Hieronymus on “Lie Detector” television program, May 17, 2005.
17. Meldrum, Jeff. Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science. Tom Doherty Associates, 2006.
18. Kelly, David. “A man with a dream as big as his quarry.” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 26, 2007.
19. Rose, Joseph. “Sasquatch: Man in a Monkey Suit?” Wired, January 19, 1999.
20. Kelly, David. “A man with a dream as big as his quarry.” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 26, 2007.
21. “Newman, Bruce. “Seeking Sasquatch: Bigfoot looms large in Willow Creek.” The Vacaville Reporter, June 2, 2015.
22. Roeder, Tom. “Bigfoot from Outer Space?” Yakima Herald-Republic, July 17, 2000.
23. “The Clandestine Bigfoot Massacre Meeting.” cryptomundo.com. May 24, 2008.
24. “Interview with Al Hodgson, Bigfoot Elder of Willow Creek, Part I.” Bigfoot’s bLog, February 13, 2010.
25. John W. Green quoted in “René‘s Film”, Cryptomundo.com. August 27th, 2009.
26. A posting by Sasquatch investigator, the late Bill Miller, on the Sasquatch-British Columbia website forum, October 2009.
27. John W. Green quoted in “René‘s Film”, Cryptomundo.com. August 27th, 2009.
28. John W. Green quoted in “René’s Film”, Cryptomundo.com. August 27th, 2009.
29. Murphy, Christopher L. Bigfoot Film Journal. Hancock House, British Columbia, Canada, 2009.
Chapter 3: Old School Bigfootin’
30. Edson, Charles W. My Travels with Bigfoot: A True-Life Odyssey. Crescent Publications, Los Angeles, CA, 1979.
31. According to articles in The Times Standard newspaper of Eureka, California and the Klam-ity Kourier of Willow Creek, California, 1967.
32. Bigfoot Bulletin #21. Berkeley, California, September 30, 1970.
33. Bigfoot Bulletin #20. Berkeley, California, August 31, 1970.
34. “In Search of…The Swamp Monster” television program, season 2 episode 16, March 4, 1978.
35. “Chris Jericho: Hunting Monsters.” Travel Channel, Oct 23, 2018.
36. Cryptid Tom’s YouTube channel. Harlan E. Ford’s 8mm film clip from 1963 containing a reference to the Honey Island Swamp Monster.
37. “Interview with Dana Holyfield: Honey Island Swamp Monster.” Bigfoot: King of the Forest podcast, episode 33, November 11, 2019, timestamp approximately 40:00.
38. “Six Questions for Dr. David Chivers.” Canopy: Journal of the Primate Conservation, Oxford UK, vol. 19, issue 2. Spring 2019.
39. “Is It Real? Ape-Man.” National Geographic, season 1 episode 11, 2006.
40. Dmitri Bayanov, a speaker at the International Bigfoot Symposium, Willow Creek, California, U.S. September 2003.
41. Green, Mary A. Night Shadows – A Journal of Hominid Research. Independently published, 2005.
42. Janice Carter, a guest on BEAST TV podcast #78. Jan 7, 2021.
Chapter 4: An Invincible Yeti
43. Hillary, Sir Edmund and Desmond Doig. High in the Thin Cold Air; the Story of the Himalayan Expedition. Doubleday, U.S. 1962.
44. Davis, Wade. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the conquest of Everest. Bodley Head, London, 2011.
45. Stonor, Charles. The Sherpa and the Snowman. Hollis and Carter, London, 1955.
46. Hodgson, B.H. “On the Mammalia of Nepal.” Journal of the Asiatic Society, no. 8, August 1832, Calcutta, India. p. 339.
47. Tombazi, N. A. Account of a Photographic Expedition to the Southern Glaciers of Kangchenjunga in the Sikkim Himalaya. 1926.
48. Izzard, Ralph.The Abominable Snowman Adventure. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1955.
49. Taylor, Daniel C. Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2017.
50. Messner, Reinhold. My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas’ Deepest Mystery. St. Martin’s Griffin. 2001.
51. “In Search of… Bigfoot” television program, season 1 episode 5, April 28, 1977.
52. Tchernine, Odette. In Pursuit of the Abominable Snowman. Taplinger Publishing, New York, NY, 1971.
53. Roeder, Carolin F., and Gregory Afinogenov. “Cold War Creatures, Soviet Science, and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman.” Berghahn Books, 2018.
54. Voerkelius, Mirjam Luisa. “Evolution in Times of Revolution: Darwinism, Nature, and Society in the Soviet Union.” PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2018.
55. Porshnev, Boris. “The Troglodytidae and the Hominidae in the Taxonomy and Evolution of Higher Primates.” Current Anthropology, vol. 15, no. 4, 1974, pp. 449-450.
56. Dr. Jeff Meldrum interview on the American Association for the Advancement of Science website, August 9, 2011.
57. Spiegel, Lee. “Yeti Evidence Falls Flat: Scientist Says Local Officials Staged Siberian Snowman Hunt For Publicity.” Huffington Post, November 21, 2011.
58. Audio of Grover Krantz interviewed by Bigfoot investigator Richard Noll, July 1, 2000.
59. Eliot, Krissy. “The Man, the Myth, and the Legend of Grover Krantz.” University of California-Berkeley Alumni Association website, June 19, 2018.
60. Zuckerman, Laura. “Idaho scientist seeks to launch aerial Bigfoot search with blimp.” Reuters, Nov 4, 2012.
61. Sanderson, Ivan T., “The Missing Link?” Argosy Magazine, May, 1969.
62. “Neanderthal Man?” The Sunday Times. London, March 23, 1969.
63. Heuvelmans, Bernard. On the Track of Unknown Animals. Routledge, 1955.
64. Sullivan, Robert. “The Men Who Dream of Bigfoot.” Outside Magazine, Feb 12, 2014.
Chapter 5: The Obsession of Bigfoot Investigation
65. Bigfoot Bulletin #14. Oakland, California, February 28, 1970.
66. “Craig Woolheater interviews Adrian Erickson.” cryptomundo.com, November 2, 2016.
67. “Dennis Pfohl and Kentucky Sasquatches!” Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo podcast, episode 056, May 31, 2020.
68. Hardy, Bruce. “What Bigfoot teaches us about public mistrust of science.” sapiens.org, June 13, 2023.
Chapter 6: Where’s Bigfoot?
69. “The Legend of Bigfoot.” A film directed by Ivan Marx, 1975.
70. Coleman, Loren. Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti. Craven Street Books, Fresno, California, 2002, p. 84.
71. Bigfoot Bulletin #12. Berkeley, California, December 31, 1969.
72. Napier, John R. Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality. E.P. Dutton, New York, NY, 1972.
73. Foster, David. “Bigfoot Buff Vows to Capture the Credible Likeness of a Being.” Los Angeles Times, March 5, 1989.
74. Holloway, Marguerite. “Insights: Bigfoot Anatomy.” Scientific American, December, 2007.
75. A video captured by the late Paul Freeman at Mill Creek Watershed, aka Deduct Springs, Washington State, 1994, timestamp approximately 4:08-4:26.
76. “No joke:B.C. minister laughs off lawsuit claiming proof of Bigfoot.” CTVNews, October 31, 2017.
77. “Sasquatch Attack I.” MonsterQuest season 1, episode 2, November, 2007.
78. “Bigfoot is alive! And I’m going to bring him in.” Ideal’s UFO Magazine, vol. 6, 1979, pp. 10-12.
79. Coxworth, Ben. “Researchers plan to use one-of-a-kind airship to search for Bigfoot.” New Atlas, October 12, 2012.
80. “Idaho State U: Show us the Bigfoot blimp.” Over the line, Smokey! blog. Feb 10, 2015.
81. The X Zone podcast: “Looking for Bigfoot with Modern Technology.” October 25, 2020.
82. Idaho State University Marketing and Communications, June 12, 2013.
Chapter 7: Show Us a Body
83. Jim Lansdale, a guest on Coast to Coast AM Radio, “Bigfoot Hunting and Research.” October 14, 2014.
84. Allen, Benedict. Hunting the Gugu. Gardners Books, 1989.
85. Fike, Ellen. “Wyoming man tells William Shatner he saw Bigfoot in Wind River Mountains.” Cowboy State Daily. January 4, 2022.
86. “Large, white haired biped seen twice near Twisp, Washington.” Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) report #10974. March 21, 2005.
87. “A Bigfoot Shooting.” Coast to Coast AM Radio. June 5, 2001.
88. An anonymous posting on the Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization (GCBRO) website forum, May 1, 2012.
89. Bigfoot Information Project podcast, episode 4: “Sasquatch on the Prairie.” August 12, 2007.
90. “Bigfoot Hunts a Deer. Interview with Michael Humphreys.” Gryphon Films YouTube posting. March 3, 2017.
91. “The Siege at Honobia, Oklahoma.” Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization report. BFRO website, 2000.
92. Jackson, Ron. “Constant Sasquatch watch held in Honobia.” The Oklahoman, Aug 14, 2008.
93. The late Bob “Grumpy” Wilson, a guest on Into the Portal podcast, Nov 21, 2021.
94. Bradway, Teresa Black. “Killing Bigfoot discussion gets hairy at annual festival.” Effingham Daily News, Illinois, Oct 6, 2015.
95. Sanderson, Ivan T. “The Strange Story of America’s Abominable Snowman.” True Magazine, December, 1959.
96. Jim Lansdale on the “Killing Bigfoot” reality series: episode 1, 2014.
97. “In Search of…The Swamp Monster,” season 2 episode 16, March 4, 1978.
98. Jim Lansdale, a guest on Coast to Coast AM Radio, “Bigfoot Hunting and Research.” October 14, 2014, timestamp approximately 18:30.
99. Bigfoot is Real, a documentary series by Peter von Puttkamer. Season 1, episode1, timestamp approximately 40:00.
100. Mack, Eric. “These guys are out to kill Bigfoot.” CNET, Oct 14, 2014.
101. Riquelmy, Alan. “Reality TV Bigfoot hunter, Justin Smeja, faces hunting charges in Sierra County.” The Union News, October 3, 2017.
102. Riquelmy, Alan. “Reality TV Bigfoot hunter, Justin Smeja, faces hunting charges in Sierra County.” The Union News, October 3, 2017.
Chapter 8: In Search of a Bigfoot Genome
103. Todd Disotell, a guest on MonsterTalk podcast, “Bigfoot DNA.” Dec 5, 2012.
104. BGI Group. “The Primate Genome Project unlocks hidden secrets of primate evolution.” Phys.org, June 1, 2023
105. Bigfoot Busters podcast on Blogtalk Radio, October, 2010.
106. Willey, Courtney and Ron Korstanje. “Sequencing and assembling bear genomes: the bare necessities.” Frontiers of Zoology. Nov 30, 2022.
107. Timmer, John. “How the attempt to sequence ‘Bigfoot’s genome’ went badly off track.” Ars Technica, July 7, 2013.
108. Hart, Haskell V. “The Sasquatch Genome Project: A Failed DNA Study.” Independently published, 2020.
109. Melba Ketchum interviewed by investigative journalist George Knapp on Coast to Coast AM on March 29, 2015.
110. Partial contents of a letter sent by the academic journal PLOS ONE to the Sasquatch Genome Project, November 1, 2012.
111. Berger, Eric. “Bigfoot believers claim proof of mythical creature.” Houston Chronicle, October 1, 2013.
112. Dr. Tom Prychitko, molecular biologist, a guest On the Edge with Chrissie Blaze podcast, August 4, 2014.
113. Dolak Kevin. “New Bigfoot Evidence Screened as Experts Claim Proof of Existence.” ABCNews.com, October 2, 2013.
114. Ro Sahebi interviews ‘Uncle Wally’ Hersom, Bigfoot benefactor.” MuldersWorld.com, Dec 15, 2013.
115. Steven Novella’s NeuroLogica blog. November 26, 2012.
116. Cistone, Sierra. “Environmental DNA in snow tracks can help conservationists find and study rare carnivores.” Sierra Magazine, February 21, 2022.
117. Struck, T.H. et al. “Finding evolutionary processes hidden in cryptic species.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution, vol. 33, 2017, pp. 153-163.
118. “The Sasquatch Sequence.” genomeweb.com, Feb 14, 2013.
Chapter 9: Scientific Rejection
119. A posting by science writer Carl Zimmer on Twitter (now X), Feb 13, 2013.
120. Ashe, Alyson, et al. “How does epigenetics influence the course of evolution?” Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society B. April 19, 2021.
121. Lawless, Jill. “DNA links mysterious Yeti to ancient polar bear (Update 3).” phys.org, October 17, 2013.
122. Henner Fahrenbach, a speaker at Sasquatch Daze conference, Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada, May 4-5, 1996.
123. Davies, Adam. “A New Primate Species in Sumatra.” EdgeScience, no. 7, April-June 2011.
124. Dr. John Hawks’ anthropology blog, November 26, 2012.
125. “Moments in time that change your life.” Sasquatch Chronicles podcast, episode 318, April 23, 2018.
126. Todd Disotell, a guest on MonsterTalk podcast “Bigfoot DNA.” Dec 5, 2012.
127. “Sasquatch Attack I.” MonsterQuest season 1, episode 2, November 7, 2007.
128. “Sasquatch Attack I.” MonsterQuest season 1, episode 2, November, 2007.
129. Bryner, Jeanna. “Bigfoot and Yeti DNA Study Gets Serious.” LiveScience.com, May 22, 2012.
130. “Russia’s Killer Apemen.” MonsterQuest season 1, episode 10, January, 2008, timestamp approximately 21:00.
131. “The Bigfoot Files” television program, Channel 4 (UK), October 15, 2013.
132. Coleman, Loren. “Book review of Brian Sykes’ The Nature of the Beast.” The Relict Hominoid Inquiry, no. 4, 2015, pp. 67-74.
133. Margaryan, Ashot, et al. “The genomic origin of Zana of Abkhazia.” Advanced Genetics, June 14, 2021.
Chapter 10: Human, Animal, or Hybrid?
134. Mentioned in “Sasquatch among Wildmen.” A documentary directed by Darcy Weir, 2020.
135. The Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium. “Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome.” Nature, vol. 437, 2005, pp. 69-87.
136. Wade, Nicholas. “Two Splits between Human and Chimp Line Suggested.” New York Times, May 18, 2006.
137. Dolgin, Elie. “Human-chimp interbreeding challenged.” Nature, August 28, 2009.
138. Messner, Reinhold. My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas’ Deepest Mystery. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2001.
139. Xueping Ji, et al. “The earliest hylobatid from the Late Miocene of China.” Journal of Human Evolution, no. 171, 2022.
140. Zhang, Sarah. “The Human Genome Is—Finally!—Complete.” The Atlantic, June 11, 2021.
141. Qiu, Jane. “How China is rewriting the book on human origins.” Nature. vol. 535, no. 7611, 2016, pp. 22–25.
142. Zeng, J. et al. “Divergent Whole-Genome Methylation Maps of Human and Chimpanzee Brains Reveal Epigenetic Basis of Human Regulatory Evolution.” The American Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 91, no. 3, 2012, pp. 455–465.
143. Welbourne, Dustin. “The bigger the Bigfoot claim, the bigger the need for evidence.” theconversation.com, February 19, 2013.
144. Hopkin, Michael. “Ancient ape gives clue to family origins.” Nature, November 18, 2004.
145. Böhme, Madelaine, et al. “A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes and humans.” Nature, vol. 575, November 6, 2019, pp. 489–493.
146. Welker, Frido, et al. “Enamel proteome shows that Gigantopithecus was an early diverging pongine.” Nature, vol. 576, December 12, 2019.
147. Harder, Ben. “Giant Asian Ape and Humans Coexisted, Might Have Interacted.” National Geographic News, December 8, 2005.
148. Ghose, Tia. “Why Earth’s Largest Ape Went Extinct.” LiveScience, January 11, 2016.
149. Myra Shackley, Wildmen: Yeti, Sasquatch, and the Neanderthal Enigma. Thames & Hudson, London, 1983.
Chapter 11: Homos and Hominins
150. Duncan, Will. “What is living in the woods, and why it isn’t Gigantopithecus.” Independently published, U.S., 2001.
151. Barr, Andrew W. and Bernard Wood. “Spatial sampling bias influences our understanding of early hominin evolution in eastern Africa.” Nature Ecology & Evolution. August 20, 2024.
152. Krapp, Will M., et al. “Different environmental variables predict body and brain size evolution in Homo.” Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 4116, 2021.
153. Makova, Kateryna D., et al. “The Complete Sequence and Comparative Analysis of Ape Sex Chromosomes.” Nature. May 29, 2024.
154. Martinón-Torres, María, et al. “Homo sapiens in the Eastern Asian Late Pleistocene.” Current Anthropology, vol. 58, no. S17, December 2017.
155. Zollikofer, Christoph P. E., et al. “Virtual cranial reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis..” Nature, no. 434, April 2005, pp. 755–759.
156. Macchiarell, Roberto, et al. “Nature and relationships of Sahelanthropus tchadensis.” Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 149, December 2020.
157. Vaneechoutte M, et al. “Have We Been Barking up the Wrong Ancestral Tree? Australopithecines Are Probably Not Our Ancestors.” Nature Anthropology, vol. 2, no.1. 2024.
158. Trevor Cousins, et al. “A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans.” Nature Genetics, March 18, 2025.
159. Arous, Ben, et al. “Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago.” Nature, February 26, 2025 pp. 1–6.
160. Friar, Greta and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. “Focus on function helps identify the changes that made us human.” ScienceDaily, June 20, 2023.
161. Bates, K. T.et al. “Running performance in Australopithecus afarensis.” Current Biology Vol. 35. No. 1, 2025. Pp.224-230.
162. Trevor Cousins, et al. “A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans.” Nature Genetics, March 18, 2025.
163. Coon, Carleton S. “Why there has to be a Sasquatch” in The Sasquatch and Other Unknown Hominoids, ed. Vladimir Markotic. Calgary Western Publishers, 1984.
164. Aranguren, Biancamaria, et al. “Wooden tools and fire technology in the early Neanderthal site of Poggetti Vecchi (Italy).” National Academy of Sciences, February 5, 2018.
165. Qi-Jun Ruan, et all. “Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025; 122 (14)
166. Kaifu, Yousuke. “Archaic Hominin Populations in Asia before the Arrival of Modern Humans.” Current Anthropology, vol. 58, no. S17, December 2017.
167. “Oldest Hominin DNA Sequenced: Mitochondrial Genome of a 400,000-Year-Old Hominin from Spain Decoded”, Science News Dec. 4, 2013
168. Xiaoming Zhang, et al. “A Late Pleistocene human genome from Southwest China.” Current Biology, vol. 32, no. 14, July 25, 2022, pp. 3095-3109.
169. Koffmann, Marie-Jeanne. “Les hominoïdes reliques dans l’antiquité.” (Relic hominoids in antiquity) Archaeologia, no. 307, December 1994, pp. 34-42
170. Cerquand, J.F. Legends et recite popularais du pays Basque. (Legends and popular stories from the Basque country) Ulan Press, 1923, pp. 10-70.
171. Webster, Wentworth. Basque Legends. 1879, pp. 47-63.
172. Rayner, Michael, “L’Homme sauvage dans les Pyrénées et la survivance des Neanderthaliens” (The Wild Man in the Pyrenees and the Survival of Neanderthals). Le Bulletin de la Bipedie Initiale, Bipedia no. 3, 1989.
Chapter 12: Folklore Meets Biogeography
173. Gee, Henry. “Flores, God and Cryptozoology.” Nature. October 27, 2004.
174. Gee, Henry. “Our not so distant relative.” The Guardian, November 5, 2004.
175. YouTube video produced by Dr. Lee Berger, “When Were There Giants?” The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, May 15, 2020.
176. Rossie, James B. and Andrew Hill. “A new species of Simiolus from the middle Miocene of the Tugen Hills, Kenya.” Journal of Human Evolution, no. 125, 2018, pp. 50–58.
177. Hicks, Thurston C., et al. “Discovery of a large, continuous population of Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii in the Central Uele region of northern DRC.” Biological Conservation, May 2, 2014.
178. Kohn, Marek. “Homo floresiensis: the little troublemaker.” New Scientist, June 18, 2005.
179. “Do Sasquatches Really Exist on Vancouver Island?” The Marmot, Summer-Fall, 2002.
180. Heaney, Lawrence R. “Mammalian species richness on islands on the Sunda Shelf, Southeast Asia.” Oecologia 61, 1984, pp. 11-17.
181. Hie Lim Kim, et al. “Prehistoric human migration between Sundaland and South Asia was driven by sea-level rise.” Communications Biology, vol. 6, no. 1, 2023.
182. Allen, J., and O’Connell, J. F. “Recent DNA Studies question a 65 kya Arrival of Humans in Sahul. “Archaeology in Oceania, June, 2025.
183. Puckett, Emily E., et al. “Phylogeographic Analyses of American Black Bears (Ursus americanus) Suggest Four Glacial Refugia and Complex Patterns of Postglacial Admixture.” Molecular Biology and Evolution. vol. 32, no. 9, September 2015, pp. 2338–2350.
184. Mason, Victor C., et al. “Genomic analysis reveals hidden biodiversity within colugos, the sister group to primates.” Science Advances, vol. 2, no. 8, 2016.
185. Chuan-Chao Wang, et al. “Genomic Insights into the Formation of Human Populations in East Asia.” Nature, vol. 591, February 2021, pp. 413–419.
186. Raff, Jennifer. “A Genetic Chronicle of the First Peoples in the Americas.” sapiens.org, Feb 8, 2022.
187. Lipson, Mark, et al. “Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory.” Science, May 17, 2018, vol 361, no. 6397 pp. 92-95.
188. Nichols, Johanna. “Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans.” American Journal of Biological Anthropology, March, 2024.
189. “Sasquatch and Spirituality: A Native American Perspective.” A presentation by Mel Skahan at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum, The Dalles, Oregon, November 10, 2017.
Chapter 13: Indigenous Interactions
190. Fusch, Ed. They Walked Among Us – Scweneyti and the Stick Indians of the Colvilles. Independently published, Riverside, WA, 2002.
191. Jonaitis, Aldona. “Liminality and Incorporation in the Art of the Tlingit Shaman.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 3, 1983, pp. 41–68.
192. Madison, Paige. “Investigating Homo floresiensis and the myth of the Ebu Gogo,” Aeon, February 3, 2020.
193. Forth, Gregory. Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid. Simon & Schuster, 2022.
194. Rambukwella, A.T. “The Nittaewo – The Legendary Pygmies of Ceylon.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Ceylon, 1963.
195. Documentary, “On the Trail of the Chinese Wildman”, produced by the Australian Broadcasting Company, 1990.
196. Browne, Malcolm W. “On the Trail of a Wildman and Creatures Nearly as Elusive.” New York Times, June 19, 1990.
197. Poirier, Frank E., Hu Hongxing, and Chung-Min Chen. “The evidence for Wildman in Hubei province, China.” Cryptozoology 2, 1983, pp. 25-39.
198. Greenwell, Richard and Frank E. Poirier. “Further investigation into the reported Yeren.” Cryptozoology, vol. 8, 1989, pp. 47-57.
199. Dikötter, Frank. “Hairy barbarians, furry primates and wild men: Medical science and cultural representations of hair in China” in Hair: Its power and meaning in Asian cultures. Alf Hiltebeitel and Barbara D. Miller (eds). State University of New York Press, 1998.
200. Zhou, Guoxing. “Fifty Years of Tracking the Chinese Wildman.” The Relict Hominoid Inquiry, vol. 1, 2012, pp. 118-141.
201. Strassberg, Richard E. A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas. University of California Press, 2018.
202. Zhenxin, Yuan and Huang Wanpo, “A Challenge to Science: The Mystery of the Wildman” in Wildman: China’s Yeti, ed. S. Moore. Fortean Times Occasional Papers no. 1, London, 1981, pp. 5–15.
203. Noted in the autobiographies of British explorers Hugh Neville in 1887 and Frederick Lewis in 1914.
204. Moreno-Mayar, J. Víctor. “Early human dispersals within the Americas.” Science, vol. 362, no. 6419, November 8, 2018.
205. Mooney, James. “Myths of the Cherokee.” An extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington, D.C., 1902, pp. 22–23.
206. Delbrassine, Helios. “Worldwide patterns in mythology echo human expansion out of Africa.” bioRxiv, Jan 24, 2025.
Chapter 14: On the Fringes of the Known World
207. Kruglinski, Susan. “Bigfoot lives!” Salon.com Feb 11, 2009.
208. Driscoll, David. “Epigenetics: Where Consciousness Meets DNA.” BrainWorld, May 7, 2019.
209. GenomeAsia100K Consortium. “The GenomeAsia 100K Project enables genetic discoveries across Asia.” Nature, vol. 576, 2019, pp. 106–111.