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... Admixture: the formation of novel genetic combinations through the hybridization of genetically distinct groups. Admixed population: a population that contains genes from at least two distantly related population or species as a result of interbreeding between populations or species that have been reproductively isolated and genetically differentiated.
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... Canonical discriminant analysis: a dimension-reduction technique related to principal component analysis and canonical correlation. Given two or more groups of observations with measurements on several interval variables, canonical discriminant analysis derives a linear combination of the variables that has the highest possible multiple correlation with the groups.
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... Heterozygosity: a measure of genetic variation that estimates the proportion of individuals in a population that are expected or observed to be heterozygous at a particular locus or over the entire genome. Hybridization: mating of individuals from genetically distinct populations, or species, that results in offspring with mixed ancestry.
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... The most recent ice age occurred during this time, as glaciers covered huge parts of the planet Earth. Pliocene: the most recent epoch of the Tertiary Period from 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago.
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... : a statistical procedure that uses a transformation to convert a set of observations of possibly correlated variables into a set of values of linearly uncorrelated variables called principal components. Reciprocal monophyly: a genetic lineage is reciprocally monophyletic when all members of the lineage share a more recent common ancestor with each other than with any other lineage on a phylogenetic tree.
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... A type specimen might be a dried plant, a preserved animal, or a fossil and is usually kept in a museum or herbarium. Zygoma (plural zygomata)
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