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Diamond in Guns, Germs & Steel suggests that pre-colonial Sub-Saharan African societies concentrated their populations in high areas away from bodies of water, where malaria would naturally be less prevalent. What evidence is there for this??

by /u/mamtom in /r/AskHistorians

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