tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post3065411307026097492..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: BIG shoes to fill!Anne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-82837451934113278952010-10-12T21:50:26.319-04:002010-10-12T21:50:26.319-04:00yep BISON
another DNA tongue-in-cheek phylogeneti...yep BISON<br /><br />another DNA tongue-in-cheek phylogenetic analysis in a real journal:<br /><br />not cow nor bison this time, but horse ;)<br /><br />"Molecular phylogenetic analyses indicate extensive morphological convergence between the ‘‘yeti’’ and primates"<br />Milinkovitch M. C., Caccone A. & G. Amato.<br />Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 1–3 (2004)occamserasernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-66239203710415046162010-10-11T18:42:29.471-04:002010-10-11T18:42:29.471-04:00They found evidence of bipedal bison.:) Anyway, my...They found evidence of bipedal bison.:) Anyway, my point is that testing all alleged hair samples would help to quiet cryptozoologists. Publishing many negative tests could catch some attention.James Goetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02412501436355228925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-24175561780468982132010-10-11T18:32:39.588-04:002010-10-11T18:32:39.588-04:00Let's see -- I'd say toss-up between cow, ...Let's see -- I'd say toss-up between cow, wolf and human...Anne Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-89111758553648244732010-10-11T17:39:48.166-04:002010-10-11T17:39:48.166-04:00already done...
"Molecular cryptozoology mee...already done... <br />"Molecular cryptozoology meets the Sasquatch"<br />D Coltman, C Davis - Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2006 <br /><br />care to hazard a guess what they found?occamserasernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-31134816864902319862010-10-11T17:26:15.774-04:002010-10-11T17:26:15.774-04:00I suppose that I'm soft hearted enough to say ...I suppose that I'm soft hearted enough to say that all supposed big foot hair should have the right for a DNA test to verify that the hair didn't come from a primate.James Goetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02412501436355228925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-24844545464060396792010-10-11T17:20:01.907-04:002010-10-11T17:20:01.907-04:00I'm sorry Brian Regal objects to our character...I'm sorry Brian Regal objects to our characterization. It's one thing to be eccentric (and many prominent people are), and the brow-ridge story is in the eccentric department. But it's another to go too far off the deep end, especially if one is a professor that students' parents are paying tuition for him to teach their kids.<br /><br />The list of very famous people who drifted away from serious science is indeed long (I would not include Darwin or Einstein, however). Perhaps it's a risk of extreme genius. But it should't get anyone off the hook of criticism. <br /><br />We did not suggest that foreign wars were more sane than Grover Krantz' work. That's a non sequitur. And our post suggested the more plausible reasons for thinking that Yet might be real (if not Big Foot). Still, it seems unlikely that Yeti could exist and not have been noted (esp. if The Long Walk's critics are right, that the story was invented).Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-60477166108723023802010-10-11T17:06:38.423-04:002010-10-11T17:06:38.423-04:00Grover was on the fringe to be sure, and his mount...Grover was on the fringe to be sure, and his mounted skeleton (along with the skeleton of his dog) is now on display at the Smithsonian, per his wishes.<br /><br />He's also the guy who strapped on "brow ridges" to assess their efficacy as sun visors and hair guides in beetle-browed extinct hominins. Lunatic is perhaps a tad harsh, but not too far off when he chose to immerse himself in BF cryptozoology nonsense.<br /><br />Trust me, he was no Einstein ;)occamserasernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-29790068682505159912010-10-11T13:50:20.723-04:002010-10-11T13:50:20.723-04:00I personally have not seen any convincing evidence...I personally have not seen any convincing evidence that Bigfoot or the Yeti or any of their kin exist. Having said that, calling Grover Krantz a 'lunatic anthropologist' is not only unprofessional, degrading and inappropriate, it is also false. Krantz was only doing what any scientist worthy of the name is supposed to do: investigate the unknown. He certainly was not deranged. There have been a number of learned persons throughout the ages who have been labeled lunatics for their work. A short list would include Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Ben Franklin, Watson and Crick, as well as a host of others. Krantz paid for his work out of his own pocket and never received any taxpayer grant money. I’d rather have my taxpayer money go to fund explorations of the universe, despite failing to prove a monster exists, than to fund immoral foreign wars, for example. That would be lunatic.Brian Regalhttp://www.kean.edu/~bregal/noreply@blogger.com