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The suitability of Tibetans living at high altitudes due to the increased content of hemoglobin in their blood. Provides that the presence of the EPAS1 gene alleles in their genome. Such an adaptation is not observed among no other people. The only exception was the genome of the Denisova, which found the same an allele. Denisovtsy not numbered nor to Homo Sapiens, or even to the Neanderthals. Considered the most probable hypothesis about what took place many thousands of years ago the crossing of Denisova with the ancestors of the Chinese and Tibetans. In more recent times, living on the plains of the Chinese this an allele useless lost, he remained only the Tibetans.

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