Tibetans' high-altitude skills came via extinct cousin

Tibetans' high-altitude skills came via extinct cousin

Wednesday, July 2, 2014 6:55 pm


by Richard INGHAM

 PARIS – Tibetans are able to live at high altitude thanks to a special gene they inherited from a mysterious, now-extinct branch of the human family, scientists reported on Wednesday.

The ancestors of today’s Tibetans acquired a key variant of a gene regulating oxygen in the blood when they mated with a species of human called the Denisovans, they said.

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