Erectus Dimorphism Discovered?

The news coming out of Malaysia gets more and more interesting every day. Craig Woolheater’s "Malaysian Bigfoot = Surviving Homo erectus?" contains information from Singapore’s Peter Loh, wherein some remarkable potential findings are shared.

Photographs, according to naturalist and cryptozoologist Vincent Chow, have been taken by local people of these "Bigfoot" or locally termed "Mawas." The images are so good, according to their descriptions, reported from the news conference by Peter Loh, that the genitalia are visible.

Think about it. Right now, scientists do not even know if there is sexual dimorphism – a specific concept that encompasses a clear difference between genders in certain species of animals – in Homo erectus. Do you realize what a discovery like this could do to anthropological theory?

According to an exchange I’ve had with Peter Loh, he says that "Chow claimed during the interview that the female creature (creatures?) in the photographs looked rather feminine (I guess he meant in human standards). I take that to mean these creatures are hominid, or at least that was what he implied. I think Dr. Chow was referring to the face when he said it was rather feminine. I came to that conclusion because he waved his hand over his face when he said that."

Just as mentioned in The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates, there appears to be plenty of previous evidence for the existence of the survival of non-Homo sapiens species. Look closely (below), without bias, at the drawings coming out of Malaysia. As opposed to imaginary creatures, we are seeing people drawing real hominoids with real body parts.

When Vincent Chow shows his photographs of these alleged Homo erectus with female gentialia and wrinkled faces, I shout a hearty "Congratulations" to him. Yes, as he says, many will have the last laughs on this one. I will be especially happy for all the eyewitnesses who have had to tolerate ridicule merely for reporting what they saw.

The reality of a living fossil existing such as Homo erectus will be earthshaking. Within the study of early hominids, a debate rages on as to where fossil finds of erectus should be placed. The Johor Mawas revealed and discovered will impact on this question, if they turn out to be erectus.

Speaking of a 2004 fossil discovery of nearly a million year old, we hear of the typical divisions in the debate: "Palaeoanthropologists often have this assumption that every hominid found from that time period is a H. erectus," said Jeffery Schwartz, of the University of Pittsburgh. "They group hominids not on the basis of what they look like, but the time when they lived, which is totally unfounded. There is a tradition of confusing diversity with variation."

If Chow’s findings pan out in Malaysia, look for some revolutionary new thoughts within anthropology, palaeoanthrology, hominology, and cryptozoology.

As Vincent Chow has told me, what he is talking about are "photographs of the real McCoys."

Of course, presently, no telling what the photographs will show, but as far as being involved with this project, I am happy to announce I will be one of the contributors to his book. My interest is in honestly giving my opinion of what I do see and talking about it in the context of other mystery primate investigations.

Like many of you, I can hardly wait for this whole story to unfold, but I will. I respect the timeframes that Chow and the photographer need regarding this evidence.

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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