Anthropology 105, lecture 5: Hemoglobin
In this lecture, I do a bit of a departure by discussing a body part that is microscopic: the hemoglobin molecule that carries oxygen inside of our red blood...
All posts tagged with altitude
Did Denisovans have genetic adaptations to high altitude?
We don’t really know the extent of territory that might have been occupied by the population represented by the Denisova genome. The signs of mixture into th...
More on Tibet, demography and selection
My post about the Tibetan high altitude selection story last Friday summarized the research and included some criticism of the demographic model applied in t...
Fast selection in high altitude, but how fast?
Did the altitude of the Tibetan plateau lead to the fastest instance of human adaptation yet known?
Bending spy planes
An unexpected source of decompression sickness: the U-2 spy plane.