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What is a deme?

What is a deme? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A township or other subdivision of ancient Attica.
  2. (ecology) A distinct local population of plants or animals.
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For convenience, we henceforth drop the superscripts and subscripts indicating deme identities.
The person voted and was taxed in his deme, and he was called into the military service from his deme.
Historically, migration can take ancestors to any deme within the population.
The Peloponnesian army under King Archidamus reached the borders of Attica and encamped at the deme of Acharnae.
If some or all of the samples come from the same deme, the PRF results must be corrected for the effect of drift and migration within demes.
We have studied different aspects of DNA sequence polymorphism within a single deme drawn from a population that has experienced a range expansion.

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