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Bigfoot, if he exists, is presumably a great ape. Great apes evolved in Africa and spread from there. So Bigfoot would be a relative of Gigantopithecus. I'm figuring if Bigfoot exists, the Himalayan Yeti probably does too and is another relative of Gigantopithecus. And I'd guess that Bigfoot came across the land bridge between North and South America about 12,000 or 15,000 years ago, something like that. I think humans got here much earlier because they sailed down the Pacific coast of the Americas in boats before there was any passible land bridge. At any rate the earliest human settlements in the Americas predate the passable open coridor across the land bridge. Nobody reports seeing Bigfoot in boats or building fires or using spears. So if Bigfoot exists he is presumably untechnological. Many reports claim Bigfoot throws branches or rocks. But all us great apes do that.The problem is evolutionary paths. If a population of bigfoot has managed to survive, from what did they come from? As has been said before in this thread, North American primates went mostly extinct 56 million years ago with a few species surviving to 26 million years ago, long before humans. And those known fossils? None were larger than either tarsiers or lemurs. More damning, there is a fossil tentatively dated to 21 million years ago, of a South American capuchin-like monkey that managed to go North from South America before the Panama land rose.
If Bigfoot was a common animal we would have expected to find fossils in Siberia, Beringia, and North America. But if he was always relatively rare, no fossils would be no surprise. It takes an extraordinary sequence of rare events to make fossils.