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Book Review:

Big Footprints: A Scientific Inquiry into the Reality of Sasquatch
by Dr.Grover S. Krantz, Ph.D.
Paperback, 300 pages, 1992

Dr. Grover Krantz has the distinction of being one of the few scientists who accepts the existence of the legendary "Bigfoot." With a doctoral degree in physical anthropology from the University of Minnesota and additional training from U.C. Berkeley, he was uniquely qualified to investigate a sighting reported to him in 1968. As a result of his analysis, and subsequent analysis of other sasquatch material, he came to the controversial conclusion that the "mythical" creature was in fact real -- a conclusion that has cost him dearly in his professional life. Dismissing paranormal and pseudoscientific interpretations of the sasquatch phenomena, Dr. Krantz instead analyzes the mystery from the standpoint of a zoologist. Krantz reconstructs the biology of the creature, and demonstrates why it would be virtually impossible for the whole phenomena to be a hoax (though he readily acknowledges that many sightings and footprints are fake). He concludes the creature is a survival of Gigantopithecus blacki, an enormous primate known from fossils but thought to have gone extinct over 500,000 years ago.Illustrated with Dr. Krantz's own drawings and photographs, this book is a must-read for those interested in the scientific aspects of the sasquatch phenomena.

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