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jeffrey meldrum wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 life and career 2 cryptozoology 3 references 4 external links toggle the table of contents jeffrey meldrum 4 languages مصرى español русский українська edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikiquote wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia redirected from jeff meldrum american anthropologist 1958 2025 jeffrey meldrum born don jeffrey meldrum 1958 05 24 may 24 1958 salt lake city utah u s died september 9 2025 2025 09 09 aged 67 pocatello idaho u s education brigham young university b s m s stony brook university ph d occupation anthropologist scientific career workplaces duke university northwestern university idaho state university thesis terrestrial adaptations in the feet of african cercopithecines 1989 doctoral advisor john g fleagle don jeffrey meldrum 24 may 1958 9 september 2025 1 was an american anthropologist and academic he was a full professor of anatomy and anthropology in the department of biological sciences at idaho state university he was also adjunct professor in the department of physical and occupational therapy and the department of anthropology he was an expert on foot morphology and locomotion in primates 2 life and career edit meldrum was born on 24 may 1958 in salt lake city 1 he received his b s in zoology specializing in vertebrate locomotion at brigham young university in 1982 and his m s at byu in 1984 in 1989 he completed a ph d at stony brook university in anatomical sciences with an emphasis in biological anthropology with john g fleagle as his doctoral advisor 3 he held the position of postdoctoral visiting assistant professor at duke university medical center from 1989 to 1991 meldrum worked at northwestern university s department of cell molecular and structural biology for a short while in 1993 before joining the faculty of idaho state university where he taught until his death meldrum published numerous academic papers ranging from vertebrate evolutionary morphology the emergence of bipedal locomotion in modern humans and the plausibility behind the sasquatch phenomena in addition to being a co editor of a series of books on paleontology meldrum also co edited from biped to strider the emergence of modern human walking with charles e hilton 4 meldrum who was an active member 5 of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints also studied and commented upon issues of genetics and the book of mormon in his book who are the children of lehi 6 written with trent d stephens meldrum died in pocatello idaho after a brief battle with brain cancer at the age of 67 in 2025 7 his date of death is reported variously as 9 september 1 and 10 september 8 cryptozoology edit meldrum attracted media attention due to his interest in bigfoot 2 9 10 11 meldrum believed that bigfoot exists and his research on the topic has been criticized by some as pseudoscientific 2 12 13 meldrum authored sasquatch legend meets science in 2006 the book was heavily criticized in a detailed review in the skeptical inquirer 13 anthropologist david j daegling commented that the author was unable or unwilling to distinguish good research from bad science from pseudoscience and felt that the book failed to provide a thorough scientific analysis 13 matt cartmill reviewed the book in the american journal of physical anthropology 14 meldrum was present at a 2011 conference in siberia regarding the siberian snowman which included investigating alleged footprints that had been spotted in a kemerovo cave he acknowledged that the results of the russian field trip to the cave site were most likely fraudulent he suggested that the supposed evidence found was simply an attempt by local government officials to drum up publicity 15 meldrum was interviewed by director marq evans for the 2026 documentary film capturing bigfoot for his expertise on the famed patterson gimlin film which depicts an unknown subject claimed by the filmmakers to be a bigfoot walking through a wooded area 16 references edit 1 2 3 gabriel trip 16 october 2025 jeffrey meldrum scholar who stalked bigfoot dies at 67 the new york times retrieved 17 october 2025 1 2 3 holloway marguerite december 1 2007 bigfoot anatomy scientific american 297 6 26 7 bibcode 2007sciam 297f 50h doi 10 1038 scientificamerican1207 50 pmid 18237096 meldrum jeffrey 1989 terrestrial adaptations in the feet of african cercopithecines ph d stony brook university oclc 22951190 meldrum jeffrey hilton charles 31 march 2004 from biped to strider the emergence of modern human walking running and resource transport kluwer academic plenum publishers isbn 978 0 306 48000 3 meldrum jeffrey 2003 01 31 who are the children of lehi journal of book of mormon studies 12 1 38 51 jstor 10 5406 jbookmormstud 12 1 0038 s2cid 55869292 via byu scholars archive who are the children of lehi archived 2013 07 01 at the wayback machine gannon rory 11 september 2025 legendary bigfoot scientist dies aged 67 after heartbreaking health battle the daily star retrieved 11 september 2025 dupuis jeff 11 september 2025 dr jeff meldrum noted bigfoot researcher and idaho state professor dies at 67 the superstitious times retrieved 13 september 2025 bigfoot research makes professor a campus outcast cbs san francisco 3 november 2006 archived from the original on 8 september 2010 retrieved 24 april 2009 meldrum s evaluation of sasquatch footprints archived from the original on 2011 05 16 retrieved 2006 12 19 bigfoot science vs by gimlet media gimletmedia com archived from the original on 2018 01 10 retrieved 2017 11 01 idaho professor s bigfoot research criticized the seattle times 1 2 3 radford benjamin dennett michael r crowley matt daegling david j 2007 the nonsense and non science of sasquatch pdf skeptical inquirer 31 3 58 61 cartmill matt 2008 book reviews bigfoot exposed an anthropologist examines america s enduring legend book reviews sasquatch legend meets science american journal of physical anthropology 135 1 117 118 doi 10 1002 ajpa 20691 speigel lee 2011 11 22 yeti evidence falls flat scientist says local officials staged siberian snowman hunt for publicity huffpost retrieved 2019 03 11 linden sheri march 12 2026 capturing bigfoot review cultural mystery meets family history in a captivating and revelatory doc the hollywood reporter retrieved march 21 2026 external links edit wikiquote has quotations related to jeffrey meldrum wikimedia commons has media related to jeffrey meldrum meldrum s idaho state university profile jeffrey meldrum at imdb v t e cryptozoology core topics cryptozoology list of cryptids cryptozoologists henry h bauer jon erik beckjord john bindernagel peter c byrne david hatcher childress loren coleman william r corliss peter costello tim dinsdale richard ellis richard freeman charles gould rupert gould john willison green richard greenwell bernard heuvelmans ralph izzard john keel aleksandr kondratov grover krantz willy ley roy mackal vladimir markotic jeffrey meldrum john r napier michael newton anthonie cornelis oudemans david paulides boris porshnev ivan t sanderson karl shuker gardner soule roderick sprague odette tchernine books and television animalia paradoxa arthur c clarke s mysterious world beast hunter beast legends destination truth exotic zoology extinct or alive fact or faked paranormal files 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