TY - BOOK AU - Sykes,Bryan TI - The nature of the beast : : the first scientific evidence on the survival of apemen into modern times SN - 9781444791259 U1 - 591.35 SYK PY - 2014/// PB - Coronet KW - Animal genetics KW - Yeti KW - DNA KW - Analysis N2 - Almost, but not quite human, the yeti and its counterparts from wild regions of the world, still exert a powerful atavistic influence on us. Is the yeti just a phantasm of our imagination, or is it a real creature? A survivor from our own savage ancestry? This is the mystery that Bryan Sykes set out to unlock. Three hair samples from the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan are the cause of the investigation. The hair samples were from the miogi, the Bhutanese yeti, that legendary creature of the high snows that has haunted the ima ER -