Bajau Divers and Spleen Size (VIDEO)

University of California - Berkeley

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Melissa Ilardo, formerly of the University of Copenhagen and now a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Utah, explains how her study of the extraordinary divers, the Bajau people of Indonesia, revealed an adaptation -- enlarged spleens -- and the possible genetic change behind this adaptation.

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Melissa Ilardo

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