deja vu

"Following DNA tests it has found to be human bone"

And that is what 'they' want you to believe.

It belongs in a muesum! Oh, it already is?

Wonder which finger it was?

It was Jimmy Stewart's finger?

Meh, everybody knows Yetis are masters of disguise and don't hang out in the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet, because you can't get good donuts there. In fact most Elvis impersonators are really Yetis, it used to be a bigger deal when the possibility of
Elvis being alive set people all a twitter, but now they can impersonate Elvis, eat their donuts and not be bothered.

Repeat:

Well it's kinda hard to say what that proves. Human DNA codes for a wide range of "things", and most of the possibilities of genes which actually can occur in humans is not documented.

I'm saying if a Yeti had 23 chromosomes and within that had genes for extreme body hair, 8 ft tall, a powerful heart to pump blood to a tall body, and extreme cold tolerance, the genetic assay alone could easily see nothing "non-human" about the cells. If it's got 23 chromosomes and shares many genes known to be in the human genome, it's highly subjective to say it's "not human" rather than an exceptionally WEIRD human. We've got humans who are black and humans who are white, with different hair types and brows and such. No one says some are human and some are non-human.

There are no yetis.
There is no loch ness monster.
There is no sasquatch.
There are no ghosts.
There are no vampires or werewolves.
But there IS a G-spot.

Does it come with a free Frogurt?

discgolfguru: It was then smuggled out of India with the help of Hollywood actor James Stewart, who hid the artefact in his wife's lingerie case.

wat

I'm sure she was thrilled about that one.

The mysterious pull-my-finger last seen in florida

Without science: I have no evidence and it looks funny, its a Yeti!
With Science: Its human, get on with your lives.

science, it just works biatches.

Yeah, well if someone pulled the old double switcharoo then of course it is going to test as human.

/please apply sarcasm filter for this post
//is it Friday Yeti?

FTFA: The finger, which was said to be from a yeti, was taken from a Nepalese monastery by an American explorer in the 1950s.

He replaced it with a human finger he had been given by a British scientist.
. . .
The finger is now held in the Royal College of Surgeons museum in London.


Well, that's kind of a dick move.

/picture a bunch of explorers being chased down a mountain when the monks realized they've been taken
//but maybe they should consider giving it back to the monastery.

N-n-now wait just a gosh-darn minute, here! What's the big idea?!

Make a wish! One finger, one wish!

In 1975, Jimmy Stewart and I organized a moon landing protest in Redondo Beach. Neither of us believed that we'd put a man up there, so we meant to get the word out. We even recorded our own moon landing motion picture which we screened at the Redondo Beach Theater. We had invited Buzz Aldrin with the clear intention of beating his ass in front of the crowd, but when he failed to show, the event sort of fizzled.

Jimmy asked me back to his hotel room. He said he had something to show me - a Yeti finger. I didn't believe him, but we were both drunk and I couldn't drive back up the coast that night, so I went back to his room with him. As we're walking there, he tells me the story about smuggling the giant finger out of Nepal in his wife's lingerie case. Incredibly story, but also highly suspect. Jimmy goes on and on about what a big secret it is.

We get to his room and we're standing outside the door. He says, "Look, now, ya see, I've got the finger hidden and it'd probably be best if you didn't, you know, see where I kept it. For your own safety, you see." He then takes out this blindfold and wraps it over my eyes. I'm thinking, what the fark, but play along because a drunk Jimmy Stewart is a mean Jimmy Stewart. Quick side anecdote - he got drunk on the set of It's A Wonderful Life and ended up throwing a camera man through a window. Guy was nuts.

With the blindfold over my eyes, he leads me into the room. It smells like a herd of zebra have been having an orgy - manure, sweat, blood, and striped semen. "What's that smell, Jimmy?" He says, "Such your god damn mouth." I hear the door slam. Then the heavy lock on the door gets thrown. I reach for the blindfold but Jimmy grabs me from behind, by the arms, and smashes my face into the wall. I'm scared and almost throw up.

Jimmy says, "So you want to see a Yeti finger, do ya?" I tell him no, I'd like to go, but he smashes my face again. He fumbles with my belt buckle and then uses his feet to rip my slacks and underwear off. He binds my wrists with a lamp cord and then I hear the bathroom door open. Jimmy says, "Come on out, big fellow!" Some tremendous beast roars and its heavy footsteps pound across the room. I feel it's hot breath on my neck and then its massive paws grip my shoulders.

I cried out in agony, but the beast wouldn't stop. And through the whole episode I hear Jimmy laughing and egging the beast on. I knew that no one would believe me unless I had evidence, so when the beast roared and finished, I clenched and tried to hold it. Too bad though, because Jimmy forced me into the tub, freezing cold water and harsh smelling soap. All the evidence was gone. Then he hit me over the head with something hard, and I fell unconscious.

I woke up the next afternoon laying face down in a puddle of my own blood. I was so ashamed I never told anyone about it. I never spoke to Jim again.

Proves nothing. Everybody knows that Yeti body parts revert back to their human form when separated from the whole.

It was then smuggled out of India with the help of Hollywood actor James Stewart, who hid the artefact in his wife's lingerie case. She then used it as a sexual device

and that, kids, is how the finger became shriveled.

slave2grind: There are no yetis.
There is no loch ness monster.
There is no sasquatch.
There are no ghosts.
There are no vampires or werewolves.
But there IS a G-spot.

I'm glad you left aliens out.

Oznog: Repeat:

Well it's kinda hard to say what that proves. Human DNA codes for a wide range of "things", and most of the possibilities of genes which actually can occur in humans is not documented.

I'm saying if a Yeti had 23 chromosomes and within that had genes for extreme body hair, 8 ft tall, a powerful heart to pump blood to a tall body, and extreme cold tolerance, the genetic assay alone could easily see nothing "non-human" about the cells. If it's got 23 chromosomes and shares many genes known to be in the human genome, it's highly subjective to say it's "not human" rather than an exceptionally WEIRD human. We've got humans who are black and humans who are white, with different hair types and brows and such. No one says some are human and some are non-human.

What it proves is colonialists are jerks.

If they're going to out the dead guy (Jimmy) for stealing from a monastery and trafficing in human remains they ought to name the rest of them... in the name of SCIENCE! of course.

I'd like to point while I laugh at them while they laugh at the little brown guys.

slave2grind: There are no yetis.
There is no loch ness monster.
There is no sasquatch.
There are no ghosts.
There are no vampires or werewolves.



Next you'll be saying that there's no Uncle Mikey.

Invisible Pedestrian: Well, that's kind of a dick move.



It was the 50's, and Brits still had a pair of balls between their legs and they knew how to swing em. Brock Sampson types who weren't gonna let any A-rabs, spearmonkeys, or Chinamen tell them what they can and cannot do.

Oznog: Make a wish! One finger, one wish!

I was once the President of Nigeria.

FTFA: Dr Rob Ogden, of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, said: "We had to stitch it together. We had several fragments that we put into one big sequence and then we matched that against the database and we found human DNA." (emphasis added)

Well, duh, it's not likely to match to yeti DNA, is it? Unless they already have yeti in the database...

RedPhoenix122: Dented Ford: Well, duh, it's not likely to match to yeti DNA, is it? Unless they already have yeti in the database...

Right, but if it differed from human DNA, then it would warrant further investigation as to what animal it belongs to, and if they can't match anything with a reasonable degree of error, they would look into it being an unknown species, possibly yeti.

Yeah, but DNA matching is never 100% perfect. Chimp DNA is what, 98%, 99% shared with human? It seems reasonable yeti would be somewhere between human and chimp. How close a match to human was their "stitched together" sample? We need numbers!

Anyway, as Brother_Mouzone suggests above, the human DNA may have come from Mrs. Stewart.

/thinks yeti unlikely

"Smuggling the Yeti Finger" ...sounds kinky

spentmiles: In 1975, Jimmy Stewart and I...

Wow. I mean, wow! I can't believe it! You...actually met Jimmy Stewart?! That is so cool! Dude is like a legend!

/sounds like you met Harvey too

RedPhoenix122: 96%.

From wikipedia (I know, I know): "Research by Mary-Claire King in 1973 found 99% identical DNA between human beings and chimpanzees, although research since has modified that finding to about 94% commonality, with some of the difference occurring in non-coding DNA. More research yet has been done suggesting 86% or less."

At this rate, before you know it we won't even be cousins anymore.

Wasn't this question already answered like 20 years ago? I watched a documentary when I was in college about this same thing, with the same conclusion...

Why is this news again?

Poor Lamar, first he gets traded, now his wife loses a finger.

Dented Ford: RedPhoenix122: 96%.

From wikipedia (I know, I know): "Research by Mary-Claire King in 1973 found 99% identical DNA between human beings and chimpanzees, although research since has modified that finding to about 94% commonality, with some of the difference occurring in non-coding DNA. More research yet has been done suggesting 86% or less."

At this rate, before you know it we won't even be cousins anymore.

That's what I'm saying. If there's an obvious difference- not 23 chromosomes- then sure, it's not human. We don't know what most genes DO, so many genes inside a human or mysterious finger bone you could say "we've got no record of this occurring in humans"- which, again, doesn't mean much, I'VE probably got tons of genes which are wholly undocumented.

But it wouldn't be unusual to find a lot of genes which correlates to both humans- and chimps- which proves nothing. You could find genes (or 23 chromosomes) which occur only humans but not chimps- but that doesn't prove it's human. The hypothesis allows for a Yeti to be a subspecies or sister species to Homo sapiens anyways, so having genes which are only known to occur in humans does not disprove that hypothesis. From the sound of it, they only got fragments, and may not have a full chromosome count either.

Of course, Occam's Razor should be weighed in. The answer that it's just a human hand they paraded around as a Yeti, and there's no undiscovered breeding population of huge, obvious apes requiring a massive amount of calories in a tough environment, who leave almost no trace of their existence, a population which has the same chromosome count and shares genetic markers with humans... which answer is "simpler"?