I believe that Bigfoot is a North American ape. The aquatic ape hypothesis lays out the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitats. [73], Evolutionary hypothesis that humans fill a semi-aquatic niche, Related academic and independent research, "It's time we let go of the 'aquatic ape' myth." Thought so. As wild as these theories sound, they do account for the missing evidence and the elusive nature of the beast. When it aroused no reaction in the academic community, she dropped the feminist criticism and wrote a series of books–The Aquatic Ape (1982), The Scars of Evolution (1990), The Descent of the Child (1994), The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis (1997) and The Naked Darwinist (2008)–which explored the issues in more detail. After a brief description of the issues under 26 different headings, he produced a summary critique of these with mainly negative judgments. [55] Supporters argue that the avoidance of taphonomic bias is the problem, as most hominin fossils occur in lake-side environments, and the presence of fish remains is therefore not proof of fish consumption. But you shouldn't whistle back as it has the ability to possess your body. I haven’t yet had a reply worth mentioning, aside from those who admit, with a twinkle in their eyes, that they have also wondered the same thing." Do any of them fit the description of Bigfoot? Of course, this explains why nobody has found any evidence, but it does not account for why the legend is so ingrained in the cultures of North America, both ancient and present day. "[68] British palaeontologist Henry Gee, who remarked on how a seafood diet can aid in the development of the human brain, nevertheless criticized AAH because inferring aquatic behavior from body fat and hairlessness patterns is an unjustifiable leap. Academics who have commented on the aquatic ape hypothesis include categorical opponents (generally members of the community of academic anthropology) who reject almost all of the claims related to the hypothesis. Our results suggest that great apes used their own past perceptual experiences to determine an agent’s perceptual access and anticipate how the agent would behave. Many Native American tribes and we presume the primitive tribes who crossed the Bering Strait, kept history based on oral tradition. How kind of you to ask. The killer ape theory or killer ape hypothesis is the theory that war and interpersonal aggression was the driving force behind human evolution. Since they are apparently so similar to us, the alien visitors may be able to see all kinds of results that exposure to our Earthly environment has had on them. It seems a lot of people believe in Bigfoot, and many have their own theories on what he is and where he comes from. Read "Criticisms & updates" below for more details.) Sometimes though, the Bigfoots on the reality TV shows sound a lot like bears on their hind legs to me. In addition, the evidence cited by AAH proponents mostly concerned developments in soft tissue anatomy and physiology, whilst paleoanthropologists rarely speculated on evolutionary development of anatomy beyond the musculoskeletal system and brain size as revealed in fossils. Maybe there is so little evidence because there is simply none to find. You can always tell when someone is totally dishonest when they describe an ape-like creature. This early human was likely far more advanced than Bigfoot appears to be, and the chance that it would have culturally “forgotten” its ways is illogical and unlikely. I mean, if the species was constantly in our world, then there would likely be a lot more sightings...and annoyingly even some captures. Theory #1: Bigfoot is a Rare North-American Primate. They are pranksters. Can't vote. It also likes whistling. Some researchers originally speculated they were a very robust species, standing much taller than modern humans and with very heavy musculature. And maybe it's not so much that the giants will return but that we are encroaching upon their forests and deserts by overpopulation. God wrote in the Qur'an that after he banished the Jinn named Shaytan, from heaven, for not serving mankind, and the rest were banished to the forests and deserts. Humans operate with a "theory of mind" with which they are able to understand that others' actions are driven not by reality but by beliefs about reality, even when those beliefs are false. Maybe these Sasquatch creatures are a type of experiment. He challenged both Elaine Morgan and the scientific establishment in that "Both sides are indulging in adapt[at]ionist Just So stories". A branch of the line of primitive ancestral apes was forced by competition to leave the trees and feed on the seashore. Langdon also objected to Morgan's blanket opposition to the "savannah hypothesis" which he took to be the "collective discipline of paleoanthropology". But, could Bigfoot walk the line? Great apes display ‘theory of mind’ in breakthrough science experiment. For whatever reason, they are very elusive. [4][5] The hypothesis is thought to be more popular with the lay public than with scientists; in the scientific literature, it is generally ignored by anthropologists. As he did not believe human beings were apes, he believed this might have been during the Cretaceous, contrary to what is possible given the geologic and evolutionary biology evidence available at the time. It makes a lot of sense, even though there is no way to prove it in the fossil record, at least at this time. There must be something to the Sasquatch phenomenon, but getting all the pieces to fit together seems impossible at this time. [2] Elaine Morgan's 1990 book on the hypothesis, Scars of Evolution, received some favorable reviews but was subject to criticism from the anthropologist John Langdon in 1997, who characterized it as an "umbrella hypothesis" with inconsistencies that were unresolved and a claim to parsimony that was false. The taxonomic term hominoid is derived from, and intended as encompassing, the hominids, the family of great apes. What are the odds that a remote population of very large H. Heidelbergensis or another primitive human relative survived and migrated to North America? This does make some sense on a few different levels. Allegedly, people see Bigfoot all over the world. I would have to go with the great ape theory. Yeah, I think bears probably account for a fair number of Bigfoot sightings, and there are all kind of strange sounds in the woods at night. Great apes, like humans, possess theory of mind and can guess what others are thinking — Quartz 404 The page you’re looking for is not available. Perhaps Bigfoot is a hybrid of some sort, a cross between humans and some kind of creature that exists on the alien homeworld. You're right. With those shoes, we're kind of at the mercy of the experts (and their producers) to tell us what sounds legit. His main conclusion was that the AAH was unlikely ever to be disproved on the basis of comparative anatomy, and that the one body of data that could potentially disprove it was the fossil record. It's a skin walker.A human who can change its form...Can change into various species..Better known as a witch..Most commonly believed in down south by Indian tribes.."Shape shifter"They are out there.. Is it possible that Bigfoot is a forest spirit, a supernatural guardian of the Earth and woodlands? Eddy. Why it is here is a mystery but I feel that other aliens are trying to get us used to it. I suppose that they were forced into the water just as we have seen happen in so many other groups of terrestrial animals. Also like Native Americans, they believe that they prefer to shift into black animals, but are usually unseen. I have news for all of you. You can tramp through the woods forever and never find Bigfoot. [46] As he later said to his ex-pupil Desmond Morris, "Of course I then had to write an article to refute this saying no this is just a guess, a rough hypothesis, this isn't a proven fact. 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And at the end of times per the Norse legend, The Bible and The Qur'an the giants of old will return. [34], In The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution (2013), Henry Gee remarked on how a seafood diet can aid in the development of the human brain. Eric Dockett (author) from USA on October 06, 2015: Thanks zoey. Ive found deer bones, but nothing predatory. In … So it can change into black animals in the forest. Your theory does make a lot of sense. This animal is from Another dimension. Both terms were introduced by Gray (1825). As for UFO's there are so many reasons for glowing lights to occur and a number of these are associated with living, captured or dead spirits that the UFO sightings associated with cryptids is possibly related to the the cryptid phenomenon, but Many UFO sightings are a completely unique phenomenon. I was able to translate about half of their glyphs from a Chinese symbol table. I would however beg anybody that had any type of opinion on the matter to really do some deep research on the subject instead of hurling out random ideas on what bigfoot could be or where they could possibly be. [64] As evidence, they describe health problems in landlocked communities, such as cretinism in the Alps and goitre in parts of Africa due to salt-derived iodine deficiency,[65][66] and state that inland habitats cannot naturally meet human iodide requirements. :-). No Body- bury their dead/if you look hard enough you will find reports of bodies being taken from scenes of wildfires or hunter casualties by government authorities as well as instances of our own special forces teams being dispatched to areas to get rid of problem sasquatch. You can learn more when you watch Fantastic Fungi . It’s an odd paradox that a creature so secretive that it has not even been properly documented by science seems to readily reveal itself to moving cars, hunters wearing orange camouflage, and teenagers wandering along dirt roads. They had no written language, only the stories passed on from generation to generation. Eric Dockett (author) from USA on May 04, 2016: Interesting stuff, deboramjama! There are a number of cryptids that might step in and out of the parallel realm. This certainly fits with the description of Sasquatch through the years. whatever it is! Its extremely rare. Theory of mind is the ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others. [9], Independently of Westenhöfer's writings, the marine biologist Alister Hardy had since 1930 also hypothesized that humans may have had ancestors more aquatic than previously imagined, although his work, unlike Westenhöfer's, was rooted in the Darwinian consensus. Forest spirit AND alien AND shape shifter? Sasquatch is the now feral descendants of the Biblical Nephilim, or giants, who seem to disappear from history following the Assyrian and Babylonian deportations. They're also much more denser in numbers than a sasquatch would be. From these accounts and legends, we’ve pieced together the picture of a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid we call Bigfoot. As for me, I'm not totally convinced. How many times have you heard a witness say that they just seen Colonel Sanders walking across a forest road? In the end, this theory still presents us with a flesh-and-blood creature that biologists ought to be able to track down. This satisfies skeptics and explains why there is little physical evidence, but it does not account for all the reported sightings. However, it is hard to explain how such a large creature could leave so few clues that it even exists. Think about it, are Navy Seals ever really suppose to speak on ops they go on? I am 76 years old and I remember Bigfoot in the Big forest in East Texas and Arkansas well over forty years ago. [32] The Nature editor and paleontologist Henry Gee has argued that the hypothesis has equivalent merit to creationism, and should be similarly dismissed. [10][11] After he had become a respected academic and knighted for contributions to marine biology, Hardy finally voiced his thoughts in a speech to the British Sub-Aqua Club in Brighton on 5 March 1960. 100% dependent on the people that created them "however" long ago . People in a panic don't take the time to notice if their orb light is a volleyball sized orb with a human figure in it, just a glowing ball or a spaceship. So far each of these Bigfoot theories is more bizarre than the one that came before, but here’s one even the most devout skeptic can get their brain around. ONLY reason they STAY and GO to where people are , when a 5 year old child can walk into the woods and NEVER see another person again EVER . There are many different variations just as there are many different variations with homo sapiens. plant, mineral, maybe surveying.. The existence of Bigfoot, of course, has yet to be proven by mainstream science, but many people experience Bigfoot encounters each year. As odd as this sounds, there does seem to be a correlation between increases in Bigfoot sighting and increases in UFO activity. Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Yeti ancestors may have then followed ancient humans across the Bering Land Bridge to North America during the time of the last ice age. This would explain a few things, such as the extremely high level of intelligence Bigfoot is said to possess for one. It was originated by Raymond Dart in the 1950s; it was developed further in African Genesis by Robert Ardrey in 1961. Can't wrap our head around not being the most advanced, intelligent species on the planet. :-). Like most people, something called a theory of mind allows me to mentally step into another's shoes and imagine their thoughts. Some interest was received, notably from the geographer Carl Sauer whose views on the role of the seashore in human evolution[12] "stimulated tremendous progress in the study of coastal and aquatic adaptations" inside marine archaeology. Tobias praised Morgan's book Scars of Evolution as a "remarkable book", though he said that he did not agree with all of it. I reckon they are just afraid of our lifestyle ,I mean I'm not American nor have I any scientific or Palynological understanding of this creature but from the light research I have done it seems as though they or it want to stay hidden in which case I don't blame it, Humans are tearing up this beautiful world and I should think they want no part of it besides their said to have lived for some time now, they must be doing something right. Unfortunately, it seems that people without cameras, or those with cameras that can’t focus very well, are more likely to encounter the beast. Native Americans also believe that Sasquatch is a shape shifter. The abilities of these creatures as described by both Native Americans and Muslims would account for the allusiveness of the creatures. I really like his theory because it explains why there’s not a lot of physical evidence it also describes why there’s a lot of UFO activity around Bigfoot and I don’t know it’s just a really interesting theory. Wherever you stand with the Bigfoot mystery, you have to admit it’s an interesting puzzle. Along the same lines, historian Erika Lorraine Milam noted that independent of Morgan's work, certain standard explanations of human development in paleoanthropology have been roundly criticized for lacking evidence, while being based on sexist assumptions. Foley and Lahr suggest that "to flirt with anything watery in paleoanthropology can be misinterpreted", but argue "there is little doubt that throughout our evolution we have made extensive use of terrestrial habitats adjacent to fresh water, since we are, like many other terrestrial mammals, a heavily water-dependent species." It isn't because they had just seen a bear walking on two feet. Humans are capable of thinking about the thoughts of others. 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