SciShow | How People Have Evolved to Live in the Clouds

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Episode Title: How People Have Evolved to Live in the Clouds
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Description: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their Computational Biology course. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. High elevations can be a problem for humans. Since the air is thinner, you get less oxygen with every breath, leading to all kinds of negative side effects. But there are millions of people around the world who spend their whole lives at high elevations with seemingly little to no trouble. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2004/02/high-altitude-adaptations-evolution/ http://www.altitude.org/altitude_sickness.php http://theconversation.com/how-does-altitude-affect-the-body-and-why-does-it-affect-people-differently-95657 https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15111-altitude-sickness https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC139295/ https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00605.2013 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/mutations-may-reveal-how-tibetans-can-live-world-s-highest-plateau https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-pressure/in-depth/high-blood-pressure-medication/art-20048154 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16978132 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2599997/ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/12/tibetan-dogs-can-survive-high-altitudes-thanks-ancient-breeding-wolves https://www.pnas.org/content/110/51/20669 http://www.bloodjournal.org/content/126/23/3332?sso-checked=true


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