Extinct Humans Passed High-Altitude Gene to Tibetans. Tibetan people can survive on the roof of the world—one of the most inhospitable places that anybody calls home—thanks to a gene that they inherited from a group of extinct humans called Denisovans, who were only discovered four years ago thanks to 41,000-year-old DNA recovered from a couple of bones that would fit in your palm.
If any sentence can encapsulate why the study of human evolution has never been more exciting, it’s that one. In 2010, Rasmus Nielsen from the University of California, Berkeley found that Tibetan people have a mutation in a gene called EPAS1, which helps them handle low levels of oxygen. Thanks to this mutation, they can cope with air that has 40 percent less oxygen than what most of us inhale, and they can live on a 4,000-metre-high plateau where most of us would fare poorly. But when the team sequenced EPAS1 in 40 more Tibetans and 40 Han Chinese, they noticed that the Tibetan version is incredibly different to those in other people. About Christian Rayson, author of 'Born and Reborn: Book 1 of the Epic of Imsalan' Biography Christian Rayson is a Fantasy/Sci-Fi author/storyteller cynical optimist from Kansas.
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