Explain How Andean People Adapted To Their Natural Environment

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Andean people have adapted to the their natural environment in two main ways. For example, their hearts and lungs are larger than ours in the US. This means that their lung capacity is larger and therefore, they can obtain more oxygen at the high elevations of the Andes mountains they live in, which have very little oxygen in the air. Without this, people cannot do much physical activity in the high elevations because they will not get enough oxygen to keep their bodies going. They also have larger hearts than we do, another example of them adapting to their environment. Their larger and stronger hearts allow them to pump blood through their bodies faster than we can, and this allows them to get more oxygen to their cells. Without a stronger