Round 9: Tossup 7
Early habitation of places characterized by this variable is attested by Middle Stone Age mole rat hunters at Fincha Habera. Caleb Everett correlated the use of ejective consonants with this variable, which caused convergent selective sweeps in the gene EPAS1 in both humans and kiangs. Edmund Leach’s study of Kachin (“kuh-CHIN”) political systems is titled for Burmese areas defined by this variable. Among US counties, this geographic variable inversely correlates with obesity. This variable defines the Zomia region that James C. Scott theorized as fugitive from the state. Several human adaptations to this variable resemble Chuvash polycythemia. Acetazolamide hastens acclimatization to extreme levels of this variable to prevent its namesake “sickness.” For 10 points, peoples adapted to high levels of what variable include Amharas, Aymaras, and Sherpas? ■END■
ANSWER: altitude [or elevation; accept altitude sickness; accept height or word forms of high or Political Systems of Highland Burma until “high” is read; accept Upland Southeast Asia; reject answers that refer to the height of people rather than places]
<Editors, Social Science> | I1. Prelims Tiebreaker - NYU A + NYU B + Case Western (Tiebreaker Half 1)
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