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to describe a group of individuals. Some of these terms were introduced because the definitions of the population term were not clear. If individuals of a group are semi-isolated from other groups, or they are more genetically similar, then the term deme can be used. Groups that are not disjunct from other individuals can simply be called groups, or they also can be called subpopulations or local populations. For individuals that are spatially closer to each other than to other individuals, the terms

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