Tibetan adaptation to high altitude occurred in less than 3,000 years
Thursday, July 1, 2010 - 13:07
in Biology & Nature
A comparison of the genomes of 50 Tibetans and 40 Han Chinese shows that ethnic Tibetans split off from the Han less than 3,000 years ago and since then rapidly evolved a unique ability to thrive at high altitudes and low oxygen levels.