Mr. Zhou Guoxing, an anthropologist in China, believes that the snowman is the descendant of the great ape. He compared the footprints of the snowman and the ape, and thought that the snowman was more like an ape. The legendary snowman walks upright, crawling and sprinting when frightened-much like Archaeopteryx. He speculated that the ancient great ape was not really extinct, and its descendants lurked between the snow-capped mountains and ice peaks in southeastern Europe and Asia, becoming mysterious snowmen. But they have no language function, and only make vague calls. Therefore, it seems that they have not yet entered the threshold of mankind.
Some scholars deny the existence of snowman. They think that the footprints of the legendary snowman may be the footprints of bears, or they may be caused by stones falling from the mountains after the snow melts. The Sikkim government once organized a special investigation team to inspect the foothills of Jiafeng Mountain, the third-highest arid city in the world, which is said to be frequented by snowmen, but found nothing. 1959, an American snowman expedition also visited Nepal for one and a half months, and found no traces of snowman. In a word, the riddle of the snowman, like the riddle of bigfoot, is both unbelievable and hard to deny easily. Does it also belong to the category of "hypothesis science"?