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Humans Are Evolving in Front of Our Eyes on the Tibetan Plateau (sciencealert.com)
5 points by DrierCycle 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Sounds like "correlation implies causation".

More likely is "birds of a feather flock together", the people who went up the mountain found it less uncomfortable than others.

Next they'll be calling the height of basketball players evolution.


Didn't read it I guess.

They found that women in these extremely high communities had more children if they were genetically predisposed to tolerate low-oxygen conditions better.

It's about as direct evidence of natural selection as you can get.




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