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Phenotypic differences between highlanders and lowlanders in Papua New Guinea.

PLoS ONE, 2021
ObjectivesAltitude is one of the most demanding environmental pressures for human populations. Highlanders from Asia, America and Africa have been shown to exhibit different biological adaptations, but Oceanian populations remain understudied [Woolcock ...
Mathilde André, Nicolas Brucato, Sébastien Plutniak, Jason Kariwiga, John Muke, Adeline Morez, Matthew Leavesley, Mayukh Mondal, François-Xavier Ricaut   +8 more
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Positive selection in the genomes of two Papua New Guinean populations at distinct altitude levels [PDF]

Nature Communications
Highlanders and lowlanders of Papua New Guinea have faced distinct environmental stress, such as hypoxia and environment-specific pathogen exposure, respectively.
Mathilde André, Nicolas Brucato, Georgi Hudjasov, Vasili Pankratov, Danat Yermakovich, Francesco Montinaro, Rita Kreevan, Jason Kariwiga, John Muke, Anne Boland, Jean-François Deleuze, Vincent Meyer, Nicholas Evans, Murray P. Cox, Matthew Leavesley, Michael Dannemann, Tõnis Org, Mait Metspalu, Mayukh Mondal, François-Xavier Ricaut   +19 more
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New Highlanders in traditionellen Abwanderungsgebieten der Alpen

Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2015
Observé dans les Alpes françaises dès les années soixante-dix, le phénomène de nouvelles migrations en montagne s'est propagé dans une grande partie des Alpes orientales.
Roland Löffler, Michael Beismann, Judith Walder, Ernst Steinicke   +3 more
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Agri-cultural resistance and local development

Scienze del Territorio, 2021
The reconversion of raw lands into productive areas through cultivation may be considered as a practice of resistance toward territorial policies dictated from outside.
Maria Anna Bertolino
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Chi ha bisogno della montagna italiana?

Scienze del Territorio, 2020
Due to urban and industrial development in the post-war period, the Italian Alps and Apennines have experience an intense phenomenon of depopulation, mainly caused by massive emigration to urban areas. Italian mountain regions, considered for a long time
Giulia Bergamasco, Andrea Membretti, Maria Molinari   +2 more
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Rural every day life in Dagestan in 1920s

Вестник Майкопского государственного технологического университета, 2023
The article considers the problem that has not been studied in regional historiography, namely the daily life of the rural population in Dagestan in the first decade of the Soviet power.
Madina Magomedovna Amirkhanova
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“That silence will seem absolutely incredible…”: on the assessment of the military-political situation in the North Caucasus after the end of the fight against Muridism

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2023
Introduction. The article examines the situation in the North Caucasus that had developed by the beginning of the 1960s following the end of the armed confrontation.
P. S. Mordovin
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On the reasons of tightening the policy of the Russian Empire in the North Caucasus in the first third of the XIX century

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2022
Caucasus in the first decades of the 19th century, and how it gradually became tougher, and violent actions became the main argument in relations with local peoples.
E. V. Kuznetsova
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ON PECULIARITIES OF SOME SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS OF THE IMPERIAL POLITICS IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The article considers social and economic steps of the Russian administration in the North Caucasus after armed opposition with the part of mountain peoples.
E. Gurova
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Deep phenotyping of 11,880 highlanders reveals novel adaptive traits in native Tibetans

iScience, 2023
Summary: Tibetans are the ideal population to study genetic adaptation in extreme environments. Here, we performed systematic phenotyping of 11,880 highlanders, covering 133 quantitative traits of 13 organ systems.
Yaoxi He, Wangshan Zheng, Yongbo Guo, Tian Yue, Chaoying Cui, Ouzhuluobu, Hui Zhang, Kai Liu, Zhaohui Yang, Tianyi Wu, Jia Qu, Zi-Bing Jin, Jian Yang, Fan Lu, Xuebin Qi, Bing Su   +15 more
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