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Yet the people of Vanuatu, having experienced repeated upheavals and colonizations, might have glimpsed in that very paradox an expanded sense of possibility.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2021

Science fiction as a genre has long been obsessed with the possibility of reaching Mars, for both expeditions, such as Andy Weir’s novel The Martian, and colonizations, like in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy.

From The Verge • Mar. 25, 2018

“What is clear is that the island has a complex settlement history involving multiple colonizations by different populations at different times,” Crowther says.

From Science Magazine • May 30, 2016

But considering an island on the other side of the world — Britain — with its discontinuous record of human settlement over 900,000 years, I can also imagine episodic human colonizations on Flores.

From Nature • Oct. 21, 2014

That is, everything about the Clovis phenomenon and its spread through the Americas corresponds to findings for other, unquestioned virgin-land colonizations in history.

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