article_snippet: Professor Sykes insisted that the findings from the new study did not invalidate Professor Sykes own findings.
article_snippet: Professor Sykes said: 'What mattered most to our project was that these two hairs were definitely not from unknown primates. '
article_snippet: Last year, in what was the first serious scientific study of the abominable snowman for 50 years, Professor Bryan Sykes from the University of Oxford analysed 30 samples of hair.
article_snippet: But new research suggests Professor Sykes's findings were in fact down to an error in analysing the data.
article_snippet: Researchers Ross Barnett, from the University of CopenhagenCopenhagen, and Ceiridwen Edwards from the University of Oxford Oxford looked at the same hair samples that led Professor Sykes to make Professor Sykes bold claim.