Where do successful populations originate from?

In order to understand the dynamics of emergence and spreading socio-technical innovations population moves it is important determine place origin these populations. Here we focus on role geographical factors, such as land fertility mountains in context human evolution distribution dynamics. We use a constrained diffusion-based computational model, computer simulations analysis land-quality data. Our shows that successful populations, i.e. those which become dominant their socio – environment, originate from lands many valleys with relatively low fertility, are close areas high fertility. Many homelands predicted by our match assumed known populations (e.g. Bantus, Turkic, Maya). also predict other likely well, where further archaeological, linguistic or genetic exploration may confirm for no currently identified urheimat. work significant because advances understanding guiding identification locations