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Conspecificity is a concept in biology. Two or more individual organisms, populations, or taxa are conspecific if they belong to the same species.^[1]

The antonym is heterospecificity: two individuals are heterospecific if they are considered to belong to different biological species.^[2]

Where different species can interbreed and their gametes compete, then conspecific gametes take precedence over heterospecific gametes. This is known as conspecific sperm precedence or conspecific pollen precedence in plants.

[edit] Neurology

See the discussion of mirror neuron in which a neuron fires both when the animal performs an action and when the animal sees another animal perform the same action.

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