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SASQUATCH: LEGEND MEETS SCIENCE

By Jeff Meldrum



FROM THE PUBLISHERS

In this landmark work on a subject too often dismissed as paranormal or 
disrespectable, Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum gives us the first book on Sasquatch to be 
written by a scientist with impeccable academic credentials.  Offering readers 
an objective look at the facts in a field mined with hoaxes and sensationalism, 
Meldrum reports on the work of a team of experts from a wide variety of fields, 
assembled to examine the evidence for a large, yet undiscovered, North American 
primate.  He reviews the history of Sasquatch - which long predates the "bigfoot" 
flap of the late fifties - and explains all the scientific points in an 
accessible style, amplified by over 150 illustrations.  Anyone who has ever 
pondered the mysteries of human evolution will be eager to join Dr. Meldrum 
in drawing their own conclusion.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho state University and affiliate 
curator at the Idaho Museum of Natural History, Dr. Meldrum's formal study of 
primates began with doctoral research on terrestrial adaptations in African 
primates, and has since taken him from the dusty skeleton cabinets of far-flung 
museums to the remote badlands of Columbia and Argentina in search of fossil 
New World primates.  He has published extensively on the evolutionary history 
of the South American primates and has described several new extinct species.  
He has documented varied primate locomotor specializations in laboratory and 
semi-natural settings.  More recently his attention has returned to the 
emergence of modern human bipedalism.  He co-edited and contributed to, From 
Biped to Strider: The Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource 
Transport (Kluwer-Plenun, 2004).  This summer he traveled to China to examine 
the singular foot skeleton of the Jinniushan hominid from the Middle Pleistocene.

CONTENTS

Foreword by George B. Schaller

Introduction

1. The Science of Hidden Animals: Cryptozoology

2. Wooden Feet and Fur Suits: Ray Wallace at Bluff Creek

3. Wildman of the Woods: Native American Traditional Knowledge

4. The Giant Ape of the Orient: Gigantopithecus

5. Making a Big Impression: The Skookum Body Cast

6. Caught on Camera: Photographics and Forensic Measurements

7. The Wrangler and the Wildwoman: Bob Gimlin's Encounter with Bigfoot

8. Picture This: Scientific Reaction to the Patterson-Gimlin Film

9. Ape Antics: Behavioral Parallels

10. Sound Off: Vocalizations

11. Grin and Bear It: Misidentifications

12. By the Numbers: Statistical Analyses

13. Stepping Through Time: The Evidence of Footprints

14. Line Upon Line: Dermatoglyphics

15. Splitting Hairs and Molecules: DNA and Physical Evidence

16. Where We Stand: The Evidence Weighed and Measured

Selected Bibliography

Index



WHERE TO ORDER:

ISBN Number 0-765-31216-6 (Hardcover $27.95)

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Posted Date: 10/12/2006