UM-Bot Posted July 5, 2014 #1 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Tibetans are believed to have obtained their resilience to high altitudes from the Denisovan people. Unacclimatized visitors to the high altitude Tibetan plateau tend to experience a host of altitude sickness related symptoms within a very short time, but for the local people who live there this otherwise inhospitable environment seems to pose little difficulty. Read More: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/268741/tibetans-inherited-high-altitude-genes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted July 5, 2014 #2 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Darwin 1, God 0. . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted July 5, 2014 #3 Share Posted July 5, 2014 (edited) Levi 1, Darwin 0 My bad, I thought they meant jeans. Edited July 5, 2014 by Eldorado 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted July 5, 2014 #4 Share Posted July 5, 2014 They're not any more acclimatized than the Quechua and the Aymara of the Andes. They just adapted after generations of living at high altitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astralwitch Posted July 5, 2014 #5 Share Posted July 5, 2014 No way would I go there, I have claustrophobia so bad that with less oxygen than Im used to having, Ill probably have a panic attack and die lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyOtherAccount Posted July 6, 2014 #6 Share Posted July 6, 2014 I have genes that give me a predisposition to wanting to be high, too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calle Posted July 7, 2014 #7 Share Posted July 7, 2014 this forum is indeed to sarcastic. OT: Seems interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Trinity Posted July 9, 2014 #8 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Great article! Seems that evidence of a great range of adaptation and bio-diversity if you like, exists on our humble little world. That is evolution for you, we adapt, we overcome, we survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyomotor Posted July 10, 2014 #9 Share Posted July 10, 2014 They're not any more acclimatized than the Quechua and the Aymara of the Andes. They just adapted after generations of living at high altitude. But did they? If Tibetan people born with a Denisovan gene are better able to live and work in high altitudes, why could it not be that people of the Andes have the same Denisovan gene? Why could not people who live in other high altitude locations share the same gene. I don't think scientists have done enough yet to be able to rule my theory out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyOtherAccount Posted July 10, 2014 #10 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Darwin 1, God 0. Levi 1, Darwin 0 Darwin 1, God 1 The way Darwin saw it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted July 10, 2014 #11 Share Posted July 10, 2014 They adapted after generations of living at high altitude. . ....which is how evolution works.... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted July 10, 2014 #12 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Darwin 1, God 1 The way Darwin saw it. . because he was a priest. he suffered attacks of conscience over his theory, to the point of witholding publication, and then only so Alfred Wallace didn't beat him to it.... . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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