Episode 13: Missing Link (2019)
In this episode we discover that we’d all secretly rather be squatchin’! Missing Link is the story of a Victorian naturalist who “discovers” Bigfoot when he receives a letter from the mythological ape-man himself asking for his help. We’re so excited to
Screens of the Stone Age · Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett
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Show Notes
In this episode we discover that we’d all secretly rather be squatchin’! Missing Link is the story of a Victorian naturalist who “discovers” Bigfoot when he receives a letter from the mythological ape-man himself asking for his help. We’re so excited to talk sasquatches that I’m a little worried this episode will mark our gradual transition to full-time cryptozoology podcast. Ross has even published a scientific paper on yeti DNA! (Before you get too excited, it turns out it was a bear).
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Edwards & Barnett (2015). Himalayan ‘yeti’ DNA: Polar bear or DNA degradation? A comment on ‘Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti’ by Sykes et al.(2014). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1800), 20141712. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1712
Sykes et al. (2014). Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti, bigfoot and other anomalous primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1789), 20140161. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0161
Melba Ketchum’s Sasquatch Genome Project: http://www.sasquatchgenomeproject.org/
Thomas Henry Huxley was the most quotable Victorian-era naturalist: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/17171.Thomas_Henry_Huxley
The surprisingly recent discovery of the gorilla (by Europeans): https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01883-3
Scientific names for mythological species: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/taxonomania-an-incomplete-catalog-of-invented-species/
Josh on naming the new human species, Homo bodoensis in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/whats-in-a-name-when-it-comes-to-human-fossils-its-complicated-171569s
Ross on Sabre-toothed cat DNA in The Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8844201/Sabre-toothed-cats-deadly-long-distance-hunters-attacked-packs.html
Kim on the evolution of the human spine: https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2020/03/your-back-pain-may-be-due-to-evolution-and-spine-shape.html