Peter O

[Peter O]

The very nature of ‘monster or man’ implies perspective, so I would respectfully submit that it depends on your perspective, much as ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’.

To a child, a sasquatch could be a monster,

To a grown man or woman, it could be either a monster or a man,

To a scientist, it could exist or not exist, but nothing matters until we have a specimen,

To a dreamer, they have a soul, whether they are a monster or a man matters little,

To the wise and elderly, he is the man of the forest, whether mythical monster or out of control animal,

And to the lucky observer, a source of wonderment and awe, both monster and man.

[Peter O]

Very interesting posts on this topic, so I thought I would offer my two cents in on this. A long time ago, I was a scientist, so allow me to be a bit of a different perspective on all of this.

Although the technology to manipulate genes, or more precisely, chromosomes, on a microscopic level has only existed for a short time, one may assume that that only pertains to us…not that I am implying who ‘the others’ may be who may be tampering (or have tampered) with animals (?humans?) on Earth beforehand.

That being said, the technology of breeding has existed for hundreds of years, if not much longer. Case in point, the cheetah. Very interesting research on this, but a long time ago when I was a biologist, now over 20 years ago, a good amount of time was spent looking at why the entire population of cheetahs is virtually genetically identical. One theory is that there was a genetic ‘bottleneck’ in the Pleistocene era that led to the survival of only a relatively few of some large species (it was more than just cheetahs, by the way), including cheetahs, and that this led to the genetic similarities, but that did not explain why we do not see this similarity in other species from around the same time (again, almost all cheetahs are virtually genetically identical). So, what’s the explanation? Several theorists at the time, and now, think that there may have been an effort to repopulate the species thousands of years ago, or maybe experimental breeding took place.

Now, I agree with other posters that the likelihood of a sasquatch and an ancient canine species crossbreeding is very low, but in the same way that a sasquatch can possibly be a hybrid of man, why can a dogman not be a hybrid of canine?

I suppose there is another possibility, maybe there is some magic in the world after all…maybe some of it is dark.

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