Russian 'apewoman' could have been a yeti
Russian 'apewoman' could have been a yeti
The myth of Bigfoot has titillated people over the centuries, with sightings recorded in the Himalayas and northwest America. Now a leading geneticist claims to have found the best evidence that a woman - named Zana - who lived in 19th century Russia could have been a yeti. Zana was "tamed" by a nobleman who bought her as a servant and kept her on his estate in Tkhina in the Republic of Abkhazia, according to local accounts. She was described as being incredibly muscular, slept outdoors and ran around naked until she died on the estate in 1890.
The most frightening feature was her expression which was pure animal.
Russian zoologist, who wrote the account in 1996
Professor Bryan Sykes of the University of Oxford believes that the towering woman had a strain of West African DNA that belonged to a subspecies of modern humans. She was "100% African", but bore little physical or genetic resemblance to any modern African group, according to Sykes. He believes her ancestors came out of Africa over 100,000 years ago and lived in the remote Caucasus for many generations.
Bigfoot has many more people trying to find it. But I suppose either the yeti or the alma/almasty, which live in inaccessible and very thinly populated regions, is the most likely.
Professor Bryan Sykes of the University of Oxford
