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Human Adaptation to High Altitude
January 24, 2012 | University of Pennsylvania

Over many generations the Amhara people of the Ethiopian Highlands have adapted to living at high-altitude. Now researchers are determining how their genes convey a survival advantage from one generation to the next.


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