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HOMINOLOGY
Official Website of
The International Center of Hominology
and the Herald of Hominology journal(Rus),
representing the non-commercial
CRYPTOSPHERE Fund
for
Furthering
Scientific
Searches
and
Explorations
This special systematic site is aimed at
plainly telling the TRUTH about the so-called "snowman" problem, i.e.
enigmatic manlike bipeds pupularly known in different countries as Yeti,
Yeren, Almas, Bigfoot, etc. The site's founders are specialists of
hominology, organizers of The CRYPTOSPHERE Fund,
The International Center of Hominology and The Herald of Hominology.
For half a century,
since the 1954 Himalayan expedition in search of the Yeti, the public has
been fascinated by reports of "wildmen", with the mass media interest in the
phenomenon going up and down, and rising again at present as a result of
fresh information.
As a matter of fact,
research in this sphere is conducted not by academic institutions but by
enthusiasts, as there are no diplomaed hominologists in world science so far.
But some enthusiasts, engaged in this study for decades, have become virtual
specialists on the subject, well-known in the scientific community and
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through the media
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among the general public.
More or less stable groups of enthusiasts are active in this field in
different countries, in the USA, Canada, China, Australia. In Russia
corresponding seekers and investigators have been united over many decades
by the Smolin Seminar on the Questions of Hominology under the auspices of
the Darwin Museum.
Unfortunately, information on this subject in the mass media and on various
non-specialized websites is often fraught with errors and sometimes even
deliberate fabrications. Our site, on the contrary, is called upon to shed
true light on this research and offer objective information. Being
systematic, it should give the visitor an idea of the subject as a whole, as
well as the state of research at present and in the past.
The founder of hominology is the late Professor B.F.Porshnev, who, back in
the 1960s, named the creatures under investigation "relict hominoids". Hence
the name of this branch of primatology. A short technical term proposed by
Dmitri Bayanov to indicate wild hairy bipeds is "homin".
In spite of the abundant testimonial and substantive evidence for the
existence of homins, mainstream scientific institutions pay no attention to
this subject, while few scientists who are bold enough to take it seriously
are subjected to ridicule and ostracism. The struggle for a new discipline
in science is going on, dubbed by B.F.Porshnev "the struggle for troglodytes".
Our site will acquaint you with the particulars of this struggle, tell you
of the people who are engaged in the research and of the creatures that are
being studied.
We also hope that our site will unite the seekers and help them organize
themselves for a successful search of the homins.
Authors of the site
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founders of the Cryptosphere Fund: |