The inhabitants of Tibet, as shown by the latest genetic research, have a number of features that distinguish them from any other people in the world. Scientists say that the genetic uniqueness of the Tibetans puts them on a par with fantastic comic book superpowers.
“Life in the mountains makes special demands on the body, so it’s not surprising that over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, the inhabitants of the Tibetan plateau have acquired special mutations that make them literally superhumans,” the site tdnu.ru quotes scientists who have studied the genomes of Tibetans.
According to the researchers, the constant and quite noticeable lack of oxygen, in which the inhabitants of Tibet live, located on average at an altitude of four thousand meters above sea level, has led to some extremely interesting genetic anomalies.
“The inhabitants of the Tibetan Highlands have at least five completely amazing genetic sequences that can be compared to genes for superpowers. It is these unique genes that allow them to live normally in conditions of oxygen deficiency and low temperatures. One of these genes, by the way, went to the Tibetans from the "Denisovsky man", "the researchers conclude.
Kolesnikov Andrey