Bigfoot Research - Dmitri Bayanov

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Résumé :
igfoot is a familiar word today around the world. Since the middle of the last century it indicates a mysterious giant primate of North America, who is also called Sasquatch. The Russian vision of this research is distinguished by at least three peculiarities: it is based on the combined evidence regarding these primates; it regards these humanlike beings as relict hominids (hominins by latest primate classification), i.e., the closest relatives of modern man, Homo sapiens; and it firmly takes the existence of these still enigmatic bipeds for a biological fact, not a popular myth or a scientific hypothesis. The purpose of the book is to substantiate these views and claims. The main philosophic question posed by it: What is it to be human?

Biographie:
Dmitri Bayanov is the science director at the International Center of Hominology. His cryptozoological career has focused primarily on the study of relic populations of hominids, including the Almas and the American sasquatch. He is the author of In the Footsteps of the Russian Snowman (1996), Americ?s Bigfoot: Fact Not Fiction (1998), and Bigfoot: To Kill or to Film? The Problem of Proof (2001). Each deals with some aspect of hominid research. His current book, Bigfoot Research: The Russian Vision, originally published by Crypto-Logos, Moscow, is a compilation of his writings on hominology. Bayanov originally graduated from a teachers? school in 1955 with a major in humanities. After studying under such individuals as Professor B.F. Porshnev and P.P. Smolin, Chief Curator of the Darwin Museum in Moscow, Bayanov took part in Marie-Jeanne Koffmann?s expedition in search of the Almas in the Caucasus Mountains. He later made reconnaissance trips into the same region on his own. Dmitri Bayanov is currently an active member of the Relict Hominoid Research Seminar at the Darwin Museum. His involvement with the group began in 1964 and he became its chairman in 1975. He was also a founding board member of the International Society of Cryptozoology and served on its Board of Directors until 1992. Bayanov is credited with coining the terms hominology and hominologist in the early 1970s to describe the specific study of unknown hominoids and those who study them.