Geography constrains everything humans do. From our amazing abilities to navigate and model 3-dimensional space to the locations of multinational corporations' headquarters, physical and social evolution have been firmly shaped by geographic constraints. At the personal level, it impacts how we build memories, communicate, and collaborate. At the cultural level, geography defines how and where cities are built, impacts rates of technological development, and has been the cause for innumerable wars. Geography is an inescapable feature of all our lives.
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Cory Ondrejka (2007) studied this question.