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Nature-Of-The-Beast.Pdf The RELICT HOMINOID INQUIRY 4:67-74 (2015) Book Review The Nature of the Beast: The First Genetic Evidence on the Survival of Apemen, Yeti, Bigfoot and Other Mysterious Creatures into Modern Times. By Bryan Sykes. London: Hodder & Stoughton, ©2014. 320pp. ISBN 978-1-444-79125-9. UK£25.00 (hardback). The highly anticipated question, it appears. Sykes is known outside results of the Oxford- the scientific community of geneticists for his Lausanne Collateral Hom- bestselling books (e.g. The Seven Daughters inid Project, which was of Eve, DNA USA, and Saxons, Vikings, and Sykes’ study of hair Celts) on the investigation of human history samples of alleged un- and prehistory through studies of known primates, were to mitochondrial DNA. He is the founder of be noted during a British Oxford Ancestors, a genealogical DNA testing documentary, published in firm, too. a scientific journal, and discussed in Bryan During his hominid project, Sykes and I Sykes’ 2014 book, The Yeti Enigma. were in close touch, and I respect what he has Who is the author? Bryan Sykes, PhD, is a attempted to do. As the book clearly states, he former Professor of Human Genetics at the felt that he would, as a scientist, test to see if University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson evidence of yetis, Bigfoot, and other College. Sykes is perhaps most well-known as undiscovered primates might be certified as having published the first report on retrieving worthy of further investigations. Neandertal DNA from fossil bone (Nature As he said in the book, “I realised that 342:485, 1989). He has been involved in a cryptozoologists had no chance of convincing number of high-profile cases dealing with the world of the validity of their claims on ancient DNA, including those of “Ötzi the their own. Neither did I think that they had Iceman,” a well preserved natural mummy of been well served by those scientists who had, a man who lived around 3300 BC, and from time to time, accepted samples, often “Cheddar Man,” the remains of a human collected under very difficult circumstances, found in Cheddar Gorge, from approximately and who had not even bothered to return 7150 BC, Britain’s oldest complete human proper reports,” (pages 29-30). skeleton. The Cheddar Man findings have Sykes told cryptozoology researchers that he since been disputed, it being suggested that would work with them, if they would work the sample was contaminated with modern with him. Of course, amateurs can prove the DNA. The science of genetics advances, and existence of new species, via live captures, some of Sykes results have been called into dead bodies, and other means. Hair samples © RHI SYKES – THE NATURE OF THE BEAST 68 and genetics are important, but there are other thrown down the challenge, but, in the end, he ways to prove something exists. In the case of may have been the one who moved with too yetis, Bigfoot, almas, and orang pendeks, none much haste – via a television documentary and of these methods have been successful for a book – with revealing his findings. unknown hairy hominoids. Sykes added his Sykes is a good storyteller and writer, and academic stature to the quest, and it was his book is full of interesting case files on yeti welcomed. and Bigfoot reports. The book will be enjoyed The documentary (Bigfoot Files, 2013) was for those sections in Part I, especially by those broadcast and a scientific article (Sykes, et. looking for an outsider’s view of the well- al., Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed known accounts familiar to so many in the to yeti, bigfoot and other anomalous primates, field. Sykes’ strong passages, of course, are Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281: his attempts to make sense of why genetics is 20140161, August, 2014) was published. But worthy of utilization to find the stories all during the last two years, The Yeti Enigma these hair samples have to tell us. But when morphed into the 320 pages that is The Nature Sykes tries to share some of the history of the of the Beast by Bryan Sykes, which appeared yeti and Bigfoot, he trips a bit as a historian. in April 2015 from Hodder & Stoughton in the After some personal moments in the field UK. with Lori Simmons, which seemed more for Recall, the unfolding of the details of the emotional content that scientific insight, study took some time. British Channel 4 Chapter 2, “The Yeti Enigma” begins in broadcast their three-parter entitled Bigfoot earnest with the Yeti descriptions from the Files on October 20, 2013, on the anniversary journal of Slavomir Rawicz. This formerly of the making of the Patterson-Gimlin Bluff famed encounter, as recorded in The Long Creek, CA, Bigfoot footage. That premiere Walk, 1956, has long since been found to be date did seem more than coincidental. Then Rawicz’s apparent false narrative derived the results were featured in a two-hour special, from a true story told by another survivor of a Bigfoot: Revealed, produced for Channel 4 in similar escape from Siberia. Peter Fleming the U.K. and premiering in the USA on (author Ian Fleming’s brother) and Eric November 17, 2013, on the National Shipton, among others, are critics of the Geographic Channel. Rawicz story, including the tale of the Yetis After the fiasco of the Melba Ketchum affair seen. Thus Sykes limbs into his foundation (much criticized in this book for having stories about yetis and Bigfoot. But he “wasted a lot of valuable material”), many in stumbles so often, it is obvious he needed to the Bigfoot field were careful when Sykes’ have a cryptozoologist or hominologist as a call for samples was announced. Eventually, proof-reader. however, many agreed to share hair samples Sykes tells of Edmund Hillary’s debunking with Sykes and his Oxford University-based expedition to the Himalayas as occurring in study. Will they be disappointed in the 1962 (pages 42 and 65), although Hillary’s outcome they see unfold in this book? The World Book yeti expedition took place in man famed for first retrieving fossil DNA had 1960. This is a fundamental fact that seems to LOREN COLEMAN 69 have pointed to not enough background apemen,” (page 260). research on Sykes’ part, or not having very There is one more example where Sykes good fact-checkers. seems to be jumping to conclusions without There are other little errors, like listing one all the facts. This involves the hair taken in of Peter Byrne’s associates as “Steve Mattice” July 2005 that was associated with a sighting (page 63), when his name was Steve M. of a Sasquatch in Teslin, Yukon. Matthes, who went on to author a book Sykes summarized the case in his book. He including his Bigfoot experiences entitled notes the eyewitnesses saw a large biped Brave and Other Stories (Red Giant moving through the brush. “They were Productions, 1988). convinced they had seen a Sasquatch and, Other mistakes are more significant, such as when they found a tuft of coarse, dark hair stating the Patterson-Gimlin filming took very close to a large footprint seventeen place in 1968, on October 20 (page 57), when inches long and five inches wide, they sent the it occurred in 1967; or remarking that because hair to the Government of the Yukon Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin were rodeo Department of Environment for ident- riders, Patterson stayed on his horse until he ification,” (page 153). decided to get off, when Patterson and Gimlin As was noted by Dr. David Coltman, a encountered the Bigfoot Patterson would film wildlife geneticist in the Department of (page 58). Patterson was, in fact, thrown to the Biological Sciences at the University of ground by his horse. Alberta, at the time, “The DNA profile of the Sykes sometimes transforms theories about hair sample we received from the Yukon fakery into factual statements. For example earlier this week clearly matches reference (pages 52 and 59), Sykes equates theories and DNA profiles from North American bison, media reports (wrongly detailing the Ray Bison bison.” Wallace revelations) as final conclusions that Sykes mentions this is “what had fooled the Jerry Crew was hoaxed when he found good people of Teslin” (page 153) and hints at footprints at Bluff Creek in 1958. As has been them starting “a Sasquatch rumour,” (page documented, the Wallace wooden tooled fakes 154). But for some reason, Sykes morphs this were certainly used to hoax some tracks, but incident into “the good people of Teslin, they do not match, at all, the ones found by Yukon, mistook the backside of a bison for a Crew in 1958 during the initial incidents at the Sasquatch,” (page 308). construction site at Bluff Creek. I personally investigated this case, talked to Sykes does this again with the 1924 Ape Coltman in 2005, and, indeed, we have an Canyon “attack” on the miners. Sykes takes a exhibit on this event at the International 1983 theory of boys from a nearby YMCA Cryptozoology Museum, complete with a camp throwing rocks (pages 56-57) and portion of the hair sample and Coltman’s transposes it into fact when he says later in his documentation. Sykes mentions in his book book, “I was reminded of the Ape Canyon that he knows that the people involved in this incident from Chapter 6 where another cabin sighting had a bison pelt (actually a bison was attacked by humans mistaken for rug), but does not appear to understand where SYKES – THE NATURE OF THE BEAST 70 the sample was found (i.e.
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