Big Foot, Evolutionary?

[Little Tree]

I have thought about this for a little bit now, and I want to get the oppinions of you guys. Here is what I have to say.

Think about the evolutionary chart if you will. Now, If I recall correctly, it shows that we evovled from apes, or chimps? Any ways, Along the way the primate developes human charicteristics. So perhaps, bigfoot isn't some prehistorc beast per se, maybe he/she is just "the lost link?"

If we did infact evolve from primates, why would primates stop evolving. I would imagine, that an undeveloped human/primate, would be afraid of things it couldn't yet understand. Such as cities, and ever day people. So if big foot does exist, he/she would probably stay in the mountains, or forest. And people who say that we would have already have found them, I just want to say that Osama, hid from us just fine. Now please, I meant no offense to any one. And I do not want to get into a political debate, because i have next to no political oppinion.

 

[Beer_Nut]

Truthfully I am a little undecided as to whether a "lost ape" could still exist today. The main problem that I have is that one of the main indicators throughout evolutionary history is height. For there to be another bipedal (walking on 2 legs) creature walking around that is taller than us indicates that it either evolved from Neandertals or evolved from us.

Furthermore I am very leery about these sightings in North America. There is about a 0.0000000000001% chance of that actually evolving here because all previous human evolution has taken place in Africa/Asia and there are no "nearly human" primates living in the America's (North/Central/South). Also the fact that it is covered in hair indicates that it could not have evolved from us and the fact that it is apparently "unintelligent" tells me it can't have come from Neandertals (they had a brain capacity higher than us).

But in fairness to the European theories of Yeti, this is somewhat more plausible. There is a very small chance that a group of Neandertals survided their axtinction and live to this day. It still seems highly unlikely though, considering my points above.

Sorry Little Tree, I went into my anthropolgy lecture again. Keep posting them I really enjoy having to think of all this stuff again.