Labour over-performed in Scotland, picked up with admirable accuracy by the polls, and in inner London, but other than those areas there was no strong regional geography as there has been in most other recent elections.
Wedged between geopolitical massifs, theirs is a history marred by the potent combination of unfortunate geography, strong neighbors and realpolitik.
The evolutionary history seems to be more complex, again implicating a strong role of geography and climate in this region.
In wild populations there is a strong correlation between geography, climate, and genetic distances (Table 3 and Additional file 9: Figure S7).
Species inhabiting North America and Europe, the two continents that were covered by the most extensive glacial sheets, were influenced in different ways with regard to the impact of ice ages on migration: in North America the main geographical barriers had the same orientation as the biomes' shift, while in Europe, due its complex geography, strong barriers to migration existed.
The strongest clustering by geography was with accessions from the southern African countries of Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, and South Africa.
This cultural division is a very real one, yet Mexico and Central America (including the Caribbean) are bound to the rest of North America by strong ties of physical geography.
International dishes such as pasta and pizza and ingredients such as olive oil are popular back home in Italy, of course, but Italian cuisine remains characterized by strong regional traditions, local geography, way of life, and history.
It also exhibits significant differences in elevation due to gorge geography, and strong winds common in the area also play a factor in the region's climate.
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