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What Allowed Early Settlers to Survive Life Above the Treeline? - The Human Settlement of the High Andes | Sleepy Facts About History
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The high Andes are not a place most humans would choose to live. With thin air, freezing nights, and grass too tough for most animals to eat, the alpine environment appears fundamentally hostile to human life. Yet people have been raising children there for millennia. This episode explores how the high mountains transformed from a temporary hunting ground into a permanent homeland.
The answer does not lie in a single breakthrough or a sudden genetic mutation. Instead, permanent highland…
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