Biology
sympatric
Term: sympatric
Origin: Anc Greek
???/syn(=together, with) ??????/patris(=fatherland)
?????/pater(=father)
Coined:
By British evolutionary biologist and entomologist Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, (1856 ?1943) .
Definition
(ecology) Sympatric concerns species occupying the same geographic areas without interbreeding.
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Cryptogenic
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Empathy
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Deep Ecology
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