The Tibetan Mastiff is famed for its high-altitude prowess, showing a remarkable strength and endurance to 3-mile elevations and even higher. Evolutionary biologists have successfully identified ...

Publications on Tibetan Adaptation to High Altitude Hypoxia Cynthia M.Beall, Kijoung Song, Robert C. Elston, and Melvyn C. Goldstein. Higher offspring survival among Tibetan women with high oxygen ...

Published in Science in 2010, Prchal’s group was the first to establish that there was a genetic basis to Tibetan high altitude adaptation. In the intervening years, first author Felipe Lorenzo, M.D., ...

Study: Higher oxygen content and transport characterize high-altitude ethnic Tibetan women with the highest lifetime reproductive success.Image Credit: sanyanwuji / Shutterstock In a recent study ...

Fans of mountaineering likely know all about altitude sickness. They may even have experienced it — difficulty breathing, ...

The study identified a genetic trait likely originating from the Denisovans, ancient hominins who lived in Siberia about ...

Ancient interbreeding with the Tibet grey wolf made the Tibetan Mastiff adapt to the high altitude. A similar evolutionary mechanism occurred in parallel in the Tibetan people, who received their ...

In contrast, Andeans that live at high altitudes overproduce red blood cells, yet manage to avoid the negative consequences. In a study published today (November 2) in The American Journal of Human ...

In 2017, the government launched the “extremely high-altitude ecological resettlement” program to relocate many of Nagchu’s pastoralists to lower elevations. The government gave many reasons for the ...

The finds come from a site called the Baishiya Karst Cave, which is perched on a cliff on the northeast of the Tibetan Plateau. It's located at a high altitude (over 3,000 meters or nearly 11,000 ...