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In my head, I was like, Jimmy Stewart, can I blow that off? You did, man. You nailed it. All right. Well, let's take another break and we'll come back and talk more about DNA and how that is figured in the search in more recent years. Right after this.

In my head, I was like, Jimmy Stewart, can I blow that off? You did, man. You nailed it. All right. Well, let's take another break and we'll come back and talk more about DNA and how that is figured in the search in more recent years. Right after this.

In my head, I was like, Jimmy Stewart, can I blow that off? You did, man. You nailed it. All right. Well, let's take another break and we'll come back and talk more about DNA and how that is figured in the search in more recent years. Right after this.

That's true. So science wins. In 2013, there's a geneticist at Oxford named Brian Sykes who said, all right, holders of Yeti genes, Pieces, send them to me. If you have any Yeti hair, Yeti teeth, Yeti tissue, send it to Oxford University. And he got it. He got 57 samples. They picked 36 of those to do some DNA analysis on.

That's true. So science wins. In 2013, there's a geneticist at Oxford named Brian Sykes who said, all right, holders of Yeti genes, Pieces, send them to me. If you have any Yeti hair, Yeti teeth, Yeti tissue, send it to Oxford University. And he got it. He got 57 samples. They picked 36 of those to do some DNA analysis on.

That's true. So science wins. In 2013, there's a geneticist at Oxford named Brian Sykes who said, all right, holders of Yeti genes, Pieces, send them to me. If you have any Yeti hair, Yeti teeth, Yeti tissue, send it to Oxford University. And he got it. He got 57 samples. They picked 36 of those to do some DNA analysis on.

And most of these turned out to be animals that we all know, like bears and cows and horses. At the time, though, he found a couple of samples. from Bhutan in India that he said were 100% match for jawbones of a polar bear from the Pleistocene era. Yeah.

And most of these turned out to be animals that we all know, like bears and cows and horses. At the time, though, he found a couple of samples. from Bhutan in India that he said were 100% match for jawbones of a polar bear from the Pleistocene era. Yeah.

And most of these turned out to be animals that we all know, like bears and cows and horses. At the time, though, he found a couple of samples. from Bhutan in India that he said were 100% match for jawbones of a polar bear from the Pleistocene era. Yeah.

And this kind of excited people because this may have been, I mean, not the Yeti, but this may have been sort of a combination, a hybrid of a polar bear and a brown bear because this is when they were diverging genetically. And that in itself would be a pretty cool find.

And this kind of excited people because this may have been, I mean, not the Yeti, but this may have been sort of a combination, a hybrid of a polar bear and a brown bear because this is when they were diverging genetically. And that in itself would be a pretty cool find.

And this kind of excited people because this may have been, I mean, not the Yeti, but this may have been sort of a combination, a hybrid of a polar bear and a brown bear because this is when they were diverging genetically. And that in itself would be a pretty cool find.

Some more scientists came along later. They did reanalysis. And I think what they landed on was, you know, unfortunately, these, I think you're getting a bad reading because of a damaged sample. What these really are, are just brown bears.

Some more scientists came along later. They did reanalysis. And I think what they landed on was, you know, unfortunately, these, I think you're getting a bad reading because of a damaged sample. What these really are, are just brown bears.

Some more scientists came along later. They did reanalysis. And I think what they landed on was, you know, unfortunately, these, I think you're getting a bad reading because of a damaged sample. What these really are, are just brown bears.

Yeah, but science at least was getting involved and scientists kind of roundly were like, you know what? This is great because we're using real science finally. And regardless of what result we get, like we're doing it the right way. And that's really kind of the thing that counts. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, but science at least was getting involved and scientists kind of roundly were like, you know what? This is great because we're using real science finally. And regardless of what result we get, like we're doing it the right way. And that's really kind of the thing that counts. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, but science at least was getting involved and scientists kind of roundly were like, you know what? This is great because we're using real science finally. And regardless of what result we get, like we're doing it the right way. And that's really kind of the thing that counts. Mm-hmm.

Like don't be disappointed that we're not finding the Yeti because – and if it's not clear to everyone listening, it seems like the Yeti are almost always just bears. Yeah.

Like don't be disappointed that we're not finding the Yeti because – and if it's not clear to everyone listening, it seems like the Yeti are almost always just bears. Yeah.