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Saturday, July 24, 2010

DALE DRINNON: Revised Abominable Family Trees

Ivan Sanderson finishes up his book Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life (1961) with a suggested family tree of what he termed as ABSMs together with apes and men. This chart always intrigued me because several placements imply relationships that are not where you would expect them to be. Sasquatch and the neo-giants are on the Neanderthal level for one thing, a position that fits for the eastern Bigfoot I am more familar with around here but a rather odd placement considering what he says about sasquatches in general. And by the chart, proto-pygmys are fully human.

Given that the chart was made probably decades before comparisons of DNA revolutionised the making of such family trees some discrepancies with the more modern way of looking at things was understandable.

For comparison I also include a standard family tree chart drawn on genetic information.

Nevertheless, there does seem to be a key and basic inter-relationship between yetis and sasquatches, which most researchers have missed. They are both apparantly in the Asian-ape line of development and completely apart from the African apes (and presumably including human beings in with the African apes)

To illustrate this I include a graphic of my own, just made up, to demonstrate what seems to be going on. And things are not quite exactly what would be expected on THAT family tree either.

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