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Episode: Selects: Yeti: The Asian Bigfoot | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Published on June 1, 2025

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

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Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti

by Shiva Dhakal, Yuyutsu Sharma

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Um there's a there was someone named um Shiva Dal that collected a bunch of these stories in a book called Folktales of Sherpa and Yeti and all of them kind of figured the same way which was uh whether it's a story called the annihilation of the Yeti.

A book collecting traditional Sherpa and Yeti stories is mentioned, along with its author Shiva Dal.

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My Quest for the Yeti

by Reinhold Messner

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Uh people like Reinhold Messner and uh one Sir Edmund Hillary both searched for evidence of the Yeti while they were hiking. Uh and Messner even wrote a book called My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas's Deepest Mystery, right?

Reinhold Messner is mentioned as having written a book about his search for the Yeti.

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The Seven Daughters of Eve

by Bryan Sykes

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Sykes is like a a a leading expert on um analyzing mitochondrial DNA. Wrote the book The Seven Daughters of Eve, which kind of introduced the world to genetic analysis through M MTDNA.

Brian Sykes (referred to as Sykes) is mentioned as the author of a book about genetic analysis.

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