Cold Tolerance Among Inuit May Come From Extinct Human Relatives - The New York Times - 0 views
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Lottie Peppers on 30 Dec 16A new study, published on Wednesday in Molecular Biology and Evolution, identifies gene variants in Inuit who live in Greenland, which may help them adapt to the cold by promoting heat-generating body fat. These variants possibly originated in the Denisovans, a group of archaic humans who, along with Neanderthals, diverged from modern humans about half a million years ago.