Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-05-31
Books mentioned on Selects: Yeti: The Asian Bigfoot
We've covered Nessie and Bigfoot, so why not tackle the Yeti? Listen to this classic episode and hear Josh and Chuck cover what used to be known as the Abominable Snowman.
Josh Clark discussed Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti by Shiva Dhakal and others, My Quest for the Yeti by Reinhold Messner, and The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti
Discussed“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.”
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My Quest for the Yeti
Discussed“And Messner even wrote a book called My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas's Deepest Mystery, right? But I mean, well, we'll we'll we'll save the big reveal till the end, right?”
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The Seven Daughters of Eve
The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes is a popular science book that explores human prehistory and anthropology through the pioneering analysis of mitochondrial DNA.
Discussed“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.”
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