Adapting to -70C in Siberia: A tale of Yakutian horses
Monday, November 23, 2015 - 15:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
From an evolutionary perspective it happened almost overnight. In less than 800 years Yakutian horses adapted to the extremely cold temperatures found in the environments of eastern Siberia. The adaptive process involved changes in the expression of a plethora of genes, including some also selected in human Siberian groups and the extinct wooly mammoth.