Settle the Best Place First (IMAGE)
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The model predicts that as more Euro-American families settled an area and they increase competition for water and land, the agricultural quality declines (left). Newcomers then choose to settle in the next-best quality area. The observed patterns largely fit this prediction, but researchers were surprised that settlers moved into poorer-quality habitats more rapidly than you would expect (right).
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Brian Codding, Peter Yaworsky
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