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Immigrants

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Immigrants 

(biology) species, genera, families, and other groups of animals that arose and developed on other territories and settled on a given territory considerably later. Immigrants are usually named after their place of origin (Siberian immigrants in Europe; South American immigrants in North America) and according to the time of their immigration. In some cases, the time of immigration and its direction are determined by direct observation or from historical information (the process of migration of species, especially in recent decades, is proceeding intensively). However, in most cases these problems are solved on the basis of geological and paleontological data, analysis of kinship relations (taxonomic position), and the nature of the area of distribution. For example, the family Equidae of Eurasia are Upper Tertiary immigrants from America (where they became extinct).



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The immigrants rumbled off into the empty darkness, and we followed them.
However, he went with the man, who picked up several other newly landed immigrants, Poles, Lithuanians, and Slovaks, and took them all outside, where stood a great four-horse tallyho coach, with fifteen or twenty men already in it.
Certainly many of the immigrants were rather dull, and Lucy realized this more vividly since her return from Italy.
 
 
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