Ice ages remained the main constraint to human expansion for millennia, but they did help moving across the world's three large inhabited “island-continents”– Eurasia-Africa, deeply connected by multiple routes, and fully aware of each other's existence; Australia, arid and capable of sustaining only a very small hunter-gatherer population; and the Amer…
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