#8 Altitude Adaptation And Maladaptation
from EvolutionMedicine Hosted by evolution and medicine by Joe Alcock MD
Native people of the Andes can cope with high altitude better than the rest of us genetic lowlanders. How is this so? We cover the evolutionary biology of high altitude peoples of the Andes, Himalayas, and Ethiopian highlanders
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