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The connection between yeti and bear is an old one. Messner and Hillary eventually concluded what they had seen were bears. Biologists have made the link, too. In 2013, Oxford University issued a worldwide call for yeti samples. Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes said that DNA from hairs revealed the yeti was similar to an ancient, extinct polar bear. For a moment, this biological curiosity revived hopes that an undiscovered animal loped through Tibetan snow. “I think this bear, which nobody has seen alive . . . may still be there and may have quite a lot of polar bear in it,” Skyes told <http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-24564487> the BBC in 2013. But other genetics experts, notably Ross Barnett <http://ku-dk.academia.edu/RossBarnett> at the University of Copenhagen, contested that finding. Sykes had made an error, partly due to degraded DNA, according to a re-analysis <http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1800/20141712> of the research by Barnett and University of Huddersfield biomolecular archaeologist Ceiridwen Edwards <https://research.hud.ac.uk/ourstaff/profile/index.php?staffid=1413>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
