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 Glossary
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.. glossary::
   :sorted:

   population ecology
      The study of how populations of a species or group change
      over time.

   sequence alignment
      A collection of techniques in phylogenetic analysis which take
      genetic sequences and move chunks of them around until
      comparable bits are in the same positions in the sequence.  This
      allows us to then carry out comparisons and take :term:`genetic
      distance`.

   genetic distance
      How different are two individuals in their DNA?

   agent based models
      Virtual computer organisms that follow a certain logic in
      interacting with others in a computer simulation.