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TWiEVO 90: The mystery of the mouse mummies

This Week in Evolution

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The Evolution of High Elevation Animals

High elevation has been an active area in evolutionary biology for the last decade or so. Scientists have proposed modifications to our genes, or mutations of our genes that could help us cope with high altitudes. Bart Maxx: Can we then look and ask, what's our own capacity? Our species to adapt to high elevation as well.

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