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Phenotypic differences between highlanders and lowlanders in Papua New Guinea. [PDF]
ObjectivesAltitude is one of the most demanding environmental pressures for human populations. Highlanders from Asia, America and Africa have been shown to exhibit different biological adaptations, but Oceanian populations remain understudied [Woolcock ...
Mathilde André +8 more
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New Highlander Entrepreneurs in the Swiss Alps
Mountain regions are generally seen as depopulating. However, in the European Alps, a new migration trend can be observed that may represent a reversal of out-migration from these regions.
Heike Mayer, Rahel Meili
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Agri-cultural resistance and local development
The reconversion of raw lands into productive areas through cultivation may be considered as a practice of resistance toward territorial policies dictated from outside.
Maria Anna Bertolino
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Chi ha bisogno della montagna italiana?
Due to urban and industrial development in the post-war period, the Italian Alps and Apennines have experience an intense phenomenon of depopulation, mainly caused by massive emigration to urban areas. Italian mountain regions, considered for a long time
Giulia Bergamasco +2 more
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Rural every day life in Dagestan in 1920s
The article considers the problem that has not been studied in regional historiography, namely the daily life of the rural population in Dagestan in the first decade of the Soviet power.
Madina Magomedovna Amirkhanova
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Caucasus in the first decades of the 19th century, and how it gradually became tougher, and violent actions became the main argument in relations with local peoples.
E. V. Kuznetsova
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Introduction. The article examines the situation in the North Caucasus that had developed by the beginning of the 1960s following the end of the armed confrontation.
P. S. Mordovin
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The article considers social and economic steps of the Russian administration in the North Caucasus after armed opposition with the part of mountain peoples.
E. Gurova
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Amenity Migration in the Alps: Applying Models of Motivations and Effects to 2 Case Studies in Italy
Using 2 models, this article illustrates different forms of in-migration in the Alps, the motivations for relocation, and effects of newcomers on their destination areas. Since the 1990s, more and more communities in the European Alps, which had suffered
Roland Löffler +4 more
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