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Humans Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes on the Tibetan Plateau
Humans are not yet done cooking.
Mountain climbers often succumb to altitude sickness – the body's reaction to a significant drop in atmospheric pressure which means less oxygen is taken in with each breath. "Adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia is fascinating because the stress is severe, experienced equally by everyone at a given altitude, and quantifiable," anthropologist Cynthia Beall of Case Western Reserve University in the US told ScienceAlert. Women who start reproducing young and have long marriages seem to have a longer exposure to the possibility of pregnancy, which also increases the number of live births, the researchers found.
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