A MORE unusual paper title than most: “Molecular phylogenetic analyses indicate extensive morphological convergence between the ‘yeti’ and primates” (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol 31, p 1). The authors had been supplied with “yeti” hair for DNA analysis, but we can skip further details and leap directly to their conclusion: “All our analyses clearly indicate that the yeti is nested several nodes within a specific ungulate group (ie, the perissodactyls [the group including horses, rhinos and tapirs])…These results demonstrate that extensive morphological convergences have occurred between the yeti and primates.”
All the more remarkable, therefore, that one Georges…
