The Science Behind the Bigfoot Classification – “Homo Sapiens Cognatus”

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1.  Angus Reid Opinion Poll:   30% of Americans believe Bigfoot is real.
   Similar Polls by Animal Planet and Zogby
   one third of people would like to see Bigfoot proven Real.
2. Scientific support for study of Sasquatch:   Mitchel N. Townsend BA, MA, EdD (ABD) of Centralia, Washington************************
   College Instructor presents conclusive scientific proof of Bigfoot at research conference; presented forensic science proof of what he says is conclusive evidence of a giant unclassified Hominin (Bigfoot) at the 69th Annual Anthropology Research Conference in Tacoma.
   MARCH 28, 2016 BY THE SUBURBAN TIMES************************
   Teaching courses at Centralia College:
   Mitchel Townsend is a professor at Centralia College and Lower Columbia College. He has a master’s degree from Pepperdine University and has completed doctoral studies at the University of Calgary in Alberta.• He has taught Bigfoot courses at Centralia College for two years.• His first course, “CSI Bigfoot, Legend Meets Sasquatch,” was based on the work of Geoff Meldrum, from Idaho State University’s Department of Biological Sciences and received national attention.• His current course, “Bigfoot Solved, Proving the Legal and Scientific Case for the Addition of a New Great Apes Species in the Pacific Northwest,” is currently ongoing at Centralia College. The course combines his original research and features his newest discoveries.******Jeff Meldrum**********
   Full Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology and a Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University. Meldrum is also Adjunct Professor of Occupational and Physical Therapy.
   Meldrum is an expert on foot morphology and locomotion in primates. Idaho State University professor Jeff Meldrum began an experimental course titled The Relict Hominoid Inquiry. Part of that inquiry addressing scientific theories on Bigfoot, alongside other links in the human evolutionary chain. published a peer-reviewed online journal titled “Relic Hominoid Inquiry,” Idaho State University:
   Austin is the department chairman who approved the course. He was careful to note that the course was approved on its academic merits, not because of its connection to a sensational topic.
   “We are going to allow it,” Austin said. “There is an issue of academic freedom that we want to uphold at the university.”*******Dr. Grover S. Krantz****************************************
   Dr. Grover S. Krantz was born in 1931 in Salt Lake City. He obtained an M.A. in anthropology from the University of California–Berkely and his doctorate from the University of Minnesota. He was a beloved professor at Washington State University (WSU) for some 30 years until his retirement in 1998.*******Dr. Jane Goodall********************************************
   Arguably the world’s most famous primatologist, Jane Goodall has expressed her belief in Bigfoot. She is widely recognized for her groundbreaking discoveries related to the behavior of chimpanzees. She initially faced hostilities from established scientists even regarding her chimpanzee research, which has now been embraced by the scientific community at large.

   Regarding Bigfoot, “I’ve talked to so many native Americans who all describe the same sounds, two who have seen them,” she said during an interview with National Public Radio’s Ira Flatow on Friday, Sept. 27, 2002. With a keen interest in the topic, she has read much about it. Goodall said the accounts from all over the world of similar such creatures lead her to believe that Bigfoot’s possible existence should be taken seriously.

   She admitted in 2012 to the Huffington Post that no “smoking gun” has been found—no indisputable Bigfoot body—but, “I’m not going to flat-out deny its existence.”
   “I’m fascinated and would actually love them to exist.”

   ******Dr. Samuel Sentell*********************************************
   Dr. Samuel Sentell has a private practice in neuropsychology in Louisiana. He holds Ph.D. degrees in medical science and psychology from Vanderbilt University. He is interested in studying Bigfoot from both a biological and a psychological perspective.

   He wrote in a post on the Society for Scientific Exploration website in 2012: “Bigfoot/Sasquatch continues to be an area of great interest in our culture while science steadfastly resists examination of the anecdotal data in any comprehensive way. … Bigfoot phenomena are sometimes hoaxed but hoaxing can be studied within social psychology. Nevertheless, Bigfoot phenomena are not all hoaxes. Bigfoot is also an archetype of the human collective unconscious and can be studied within psychoanalytic, neuroethological and phenomenological disciplines.”

   “Bigfoot is also an archetype of the human collective unconscious.”
   — Dr. Samuel Sentell
   Dr. Sentell said he has personally “found anomalous scat and hair as well as other anecdotal evidence supporting the possibility of Sasquatch.”

   ******Dr. John Bindernagel********************************************
   John Bindernagel, B.S.A., M.S., Ph.D., is a Canadian wildlife biologist. He has posted a photo of himself with Jane Goodall alongside his autobiographical snippet on his website. Goodall is holding up the cast of an alleged Bigfoot print Dr. Bindernagel said he found in British Columbia, Canada, where he began conducting field research in 1975.

   “[I] am much more concerned with addressing ecological questions such as how it overwinters in the colder regions of North America, than with dwelling on the controversy of whether it does or does not exist.”
   — Dr. John Bindernagel
   He wrote on his website: “Wildlife biologists such as myself regularly depend on tracks and other wildlife sign as evidence for the presence of bears, deer, wolves, and other mammals, recognizing that tracks constitute a more reliable and persistent record of the presence of a mammal species in an area than a fleeting glimpse of the animal itself. I am satisfied that the Sasquatch is an extant (or ‘real’) animal, subject to study and examination like any other large mammal, and am much more concerned with addressing ecological questions such as how it overwinters in the colder regions of North America, than with dwelling on the controversy of whether it does or does not exist.”

   ******Dr. Esteban Sarmiento********************************************
   Esteban Sarmiento, Ph.D., is a biologist and primatologist who has worked as a functional anatomist at the American Museum of Natural History. While he does not claim that Bigfoot exists, he admits the possibility that it does and encourages careful scrutiny of evidence.

   He attended the annual Texas Bigfoot Conference in 2009 and commented on a purported video clip of a Bigfoot in northern California—the so-called “Patterson-Gimlin film” shot in 1967. He said, according to BigfootEncounters.com: “If it’s real, this animal is exceedingly human-like.” He said the “Bigfoot” movements shown in the film do not resemble those of great apes.

   ******Dr. LeRoy Fish***************************************************
   Dr. LeRoy Fish (1943–2002) received his doctorate in zoology and ecology from Washington State University. As a retired wildlife ecologist, he dedicated much effort as a consultant to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.

3. Scientist Announce Support for the Ketchum DNA Study:   Dr. Swenson********************************************** David H. Swenson, Ph.D. – Biochemist with over 39 journal publications to his credit. (Click here to read his resume)
   Below is his statement:
   David H. SwensonBrien Foerster, Jeff Kart, and other interested parties. I went over the manuscript by Melba Ketchum on Bigfoot genomics. My desktop had difficulty with a blast analysis of the consensus sequences. It helped me understand more about the project. This collaborative venture has done a huge project that taxes me to fully grasp. I see interesting homology with a standard human sequence with 99% match for mitochondria. From my abbreviated study, the nuclear genome seems to have human and nonhuman sequences.My opinion of the creature is that it is a hybrid of a human mother and an unknown hominid male, Just as reported. For all practical purposes, it should be treated as human and protected under law.Brien, selection of Melba’s lab for your studies is a very good call.Sasquatch is real, as proven by genetic analysis.******Dr. Hascall Hart****************************************

   Dr. Harts Statement:
   1. The mtDNA of 29 samples is essentially human.
   2. The nDNA of three samples (26, 31,and 140) has homology to human nDNA on chromosome 11, but is not entirely human.
   3. The nDNA of three samples(26, 31, and 140) is not related to black bear, raccoon or opossum.”

   ******T. Joy Clay Chrisman, Ph.D., PMP************************

   Dr. Chrismans Statement:

   I fully support Dr. Ketchum and her research and appreciate having the research and data. I make a point of stating the scientific methodology was very sound and all necessary precautions were taken
   Click here to view her information

4. Official entry- the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:   Homo sapiens cognatus Ketchum in Ketchum, Wojtkiewicz, Watts, Spence, Holzenburg, Tolar, Prychitko, Zhang, Bollinger, Shoulders & Smith, 2013Rank: Subspecies
   No BHL Results
   Parent: Homo Sapiens Linnæus, 1758
   Specific Name: cognatus
   Authorship: Ketchum
   Publication: Ketchum, Melba, Patrick Wojtkiewicz, Aliece Watts, David Spence, Andreas Holzenburg, Douglas Tolar, Thomas Prychitko, Fan Zhang, Sarah Bollinger, Ray Shoulders & Ryan Smith. 2013 Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes and Associated Studies. Denovo, Accelerating Science 1(1, Supplemental).
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