South Korea’s ‘sea women’ are genetically adapted for their tough trade. 🌊👩🏫 Generations of Haenyeo have dived to harvest food in freezing waters❄️—and their DNA reflects it. Divers and other Jeju natives share gene variants related to cold tolerance 🧬 and reduced diving blood pressure. 💧
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South Korea’s ‘sea women’ are genetically adapted for their tough trade
Generations of Haenyeo have dived to harvest food in freezing waters—and their DNA reflects it.
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Mutated tribe can swim to bottom of ocean after developing 'sea nomad gene' 🌊🧬🐠
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Mutated tribe can swim to bottom of ocean after developing 'sea nomad gene'
The Bajau tribe of Indonesia have become the first known humans to genetically adapt to diving.The tribe live an extremely amphibious life, and have now been proven to possess the genetic makeup to do so.Living off the coasts of Indonesia for more than 1…
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Polar bears are rewiring their own genetics to survive a warming climate 🐻❄️🌍❄️
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Polar bears are rewiring their own genetics to survive a warming climate
Researchers say the findings, the first documented case of rising temperatures driving genetic change in a mammal, offer a "glimmer of hope" for the Arctic species, which is facing possible extinction this century.
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