Physical evidence is king when someone proposes something seemingly fantastic.
With (almost) everyone carrying a camera in their pocket these days one would expect to see new Bigfoot recordings posted weekly.
We have found that indeed blacks do get shot more often in police confrontations than whites.
But UFOs? Bigfoot?
Not so much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus
So we know for sure really huge apes, possibly as tall as 3 meters for sure used to exist. I'm not saying they still do, they probably don't. But it's not as big of mental hurdle dor me to clear, to consider if they have lasted, than for example, to believe in flying saucers from other solar systems.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/08/2...
Reluctantly upvoted :-)
Long to short, homo sapiens co-existed with other human-esque species. The idea that primitive HSs were somehow able to entirely extermination these other species feels like a pretty high expectation to me. Any survivors - and certainly there would be some - would have been able to do so because the ability to hide, run, not be found, etc.
Today's Bigfoots could be offspring of the survivers. Unlikely. But certainly, in theory, possible.