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Population<br />

• A cluster of individuals with a high probability<br />

of mating with each other compared to their<br />

probability of mating with a member of some<br />

other population (Pianka 1983)<br />

• All organisms involved in a gene pool:<br />

Mendelian population (demes)<br />

• Mendelian population groups of organisms<br />

with a substantial amount of genetic exchange

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