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Long-term studies of Belding's ground squirrels show that immigrants move nearly 2 km from where they are born and make up 1 to 8% of the males and 0.7 to 6% of the females in other populations. On an evolutionary scale, why is this significant?

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It is significant because when they migrate from one place to other it becomes a source of genetic diversity between them and other population.

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