Dr. Jeff Meldrum is Teaching a Human Evolution Class that Includes Bigfoot
While the class is a non-credited elective, Dr. Meldrum will be introducing an experimental course dealing with human evolution, and how bigfoot, the yeti, and other mystery primates may fit on our family tree.
POCATELLO — In the upcoming semester, Idaho State University professor Jeff Meldrum will be teaching an experimental course titled The Relict Hominoid Inquiry. Part of that inquiry will address scientific theories on Bigfoot, alongside other links in the human evolutionary chain.
“It’s not a course about Bigfoot,” Meldrum said. “What I’m trying to do is address a shift in perception that’s been gaining traction in the anthropological community.”
That shift involves looking at human evolution as a tree in which scientists are discovering new branches all the time.
“Each year it seems like there are more discoveries,” Meldrum said. “The phylogeny is becoming bushier and bushier.”
The theory is that offshoots of human evolution are recent and could still exist, roaming the earth undiscovered. Therein lies the course’s connection to Bigfoot. Discussion about the Yeti is also referenced in the course syllabus.
“Are we the last hominin standing?” the course description asks. “Or could there be others? … Are these mystery hominoids — the sasquatch, yeti, almas, yeren, orang pendek — surviving branches of a bushy family tree?”
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