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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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We have studied different aspects of DNA sequence polymorphism within a single deme drawn from a population that has experienced a range expansion.
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.
A single population may include more than one deme and demes may be partially isolated from one another.
For convenience, we henceforth drop the superscripts and subscripts indicating deme identities.
So in the summer of 431, a Spartan army invaded Attica, laying waste to Acharnai, a rural deme to the north-west of Athens, within sight of the city walls.
But the government of the ward did not possess the solid attributes of that of the Attic deme.

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