{"id":3985,"date":"2018-05-13T12:17:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T12:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/13\/natural-selection-gave-a-freediving-people-in-southeast-asia-bigger-spleens\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T02:56:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T02:56:46","slug":"natural-selection-gave-a-freediving-people-in-southeast-asia-bigger-spleens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/13\/natural-selection-gave-a-freediving-people-in-southeast-asia-bigger-spleens\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural selection gave a freediving people in Southeast Asia bigger spleens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3984 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180419131128_1_540x360.jpg?resize=480%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180419131128_1_540x360.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180419131128_1_540x360.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the first evidence that I&#8217;m aware of for genetic adaptation in a subgroup of modern humans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family:\" helveticaneuehelveticaarialsans-serif=\"helveticaneuehelveticaarialsans-serif\" _=\"text-align:_\" _18px=\"_18px\" normal=\"normal\" _300=\"_300\" _0px=\"_0px\" none=\"none\" _2=\"_2\" rgb255255255=\"rgb255255255\" initial=\"initial\" inlineimportant=\"inlineimportant\" left=\"left\">The Bajau people of Southeast Asia, known as Sea Nomads, spend their whole lives at sea, working eight-hour diving shifts with traditional equipment and short breaks to catch fish and shellfish for their families. In a study published April 19 in the journal<span> <\/span><\/span><i style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border-radius: 0px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: \" helvetica=\"helvetica\" neue=\"neue\" arial=\"arial\" sans-serif=\"sans-serif\" _=\"text-decoration-color:_\" _18px=\"_18px\" normal=\"normal\" _300=\"_300\" _2=\"_2\" start=\"start\" _0px=\"_0px\" none=\"none\" rgb255=\"rgb255\" _255=\"_255\" initial=\"initial\">Cell<\/i><span style=\"color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family:\" helveticaneuehelveticaarialsans-serif=\"helveticaneuehelveticaarialsans-serif\" _=\"text-align:_\" _18px=\"_18px\" normal=\"normal\" _300=\"_300\" _0px=\"_0px\" none=\"none\" _2=\"_2\" rgb255255255=\"rgb255255255\" initial=\"initial\" inlineimportant=\"inlineimportant\" left=\"left\">, researchers report that the extraordinary diving abilities of the Bajau may be thanks in part to their unusually large spleens. The adaptation, the researchers say, is a rare example of natural selection in modern humans &#8212; and one that could provide medically relevant insight into how humans manage acute hypoxia.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/04\/180419131128.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/04\/180419131128.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first evidence that I&#8217;m aware of for genetic adaptation in a subgroup of modern humans. The Bajau people of Southeast Asia, known as Sea Nomads, spend their whole lives at sea, working eight-hour diving shifts with traditional equipment and short breaks to catch fish and shellfish for their families. In a study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-12h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}