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'Sea nomads' evolved big spleens for deep diving – DW – 04/20/2018

'Sea nomads' evolved big spleens for deep diving – DW – 04/20/2018

'Sea nomads' evolved big spleens for deep diving – DW – 04/20/2018

A new study explains how nomadic Bajau people manage to free dive to great depths in search of food. It offers fresh evidence that groups ...

How Asia's Super Divers Evolved for a Life At Sea - The Atlantic

That's when she realized that the Bajau have unusually large spleens—50 percent bigger than those of the Saluan, a neighboring group who barely ...

Tribe of 'fish people' boast extra-big spleens for deep sea diving

A tribe of Indonesian “fish people” have evolved extra-large spleens that enable them to free dive to incredible depths. The genetic change.

Some people have evolved bigger spleens to hunt underwater

Researchers have found that Indonesia's Bajau people, who for generations have spent the majority of their days diving and hunting ...

Bajau 'Sea Nomads' have genetically evolved to become expert free ...

Through natural selection the Bajau people have developed bigger spleens making them exceptionally good at breath-hold diving, new research ...

Larger Spleens Help Bajau “Sea Nomads” Dive - National Geographic

Most people can hold their breath underwater for a few seconds, some for a few minutes. But a group of people called the Bajau takes free diving ...

Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea - The New York Times

Scientists suspect that the reflex helps them dive deeper — as it turns out, seals with bigger spleens can dive deepest. An enlarged spleen ...

Bajau people 'evolved bigger spleens' for free-diving - BBC

The Bajau are traditionally nomadic and seafaring, and survive by collecting shellfish from the sea floor. Scientists studying the effect of ...

Longer dives because of larger spleen - Radboudumc

Listen. 20 April 2018. Foto: Melissa Ilardo The Bajau people of Southeast Asia, known as the last Sea Nomads, spend their whole lives at sea, ...