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Some, including the Indus River basin, are also regarded as birthplaces of human civilization.

From Science Daily • Dec. 31, 2025

However, Prof Lorente’s team whittled the candidates down to eight possible birthplaces, in Spain, Portugal and Italy.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2024

That pattern matches a practice ethnographers call patrilocality, in which men stay put while women leave their birthplaces to find mates, a pattern also seen in ancient European farmers, among others.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 24, 2024

Each year, hordes of them surge from the ocean into Canada’s rivers and streams, swimming back to their birthplaces to spawn.

From Scientific American • Oct. 30, 2023

Does the history of technology depend on nothing more than accidents of the birthplaces of a few inventors?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond