TIL That for thousands of years the The Bajau people of Southeast Asia have engaged in breath-hold diving, causing them to evolve large spleens. The larger reservoir of oxygenated red blood cells has helped them to become some of the world’s best free divers.


TIL That for thousands of years the The Bajau people of Southeast Asia have engaged in breath-hold diving, causing them to evolve large spleens. The larger reservoir of oxygenated red blood cells has helped them to become some of the world’s best free divers. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867418303866 diddlebits June 29, 2020 at 10:13PM

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