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The tribe that sees like no one else

By David Robson

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The benefits of eating adventurously

By David Robson
Hmong communities may use a mouth harp to replicate the melodies of their whistled languages - again blurring the boundaries between music and speech (Credit: Alamy)
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The world's most beautiful language?

By David Robson
A small set of gene variants allow the Tibetans' bodies to increase the efficiency of the oxygen transport in their blood, without straining the heart (Credit: Getty Images)
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How Tibetans' bodies survive altitude

By Alex Riley
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19 emotions you never knew you had

By David Robson
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How East and West think differently

By David Robson