Conspecificity is a concept in biology. Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles Two or more individual organisms, populations, or taxa are termed conspecific if they belong to the same species. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology A taxon (plural taxa) or taxonomic unit, is a name designating an organism or a group of Organisms In Biological nomenclature according to In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank.
The antonym is heterospecificity: two individuals are heterospecific if they are considered to belong to different biological species. In Lexical semantics, opposites are words that lie in an inherently incompatible binary relationship as in the opposite pairs male: female, long: short
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.
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. A mirror neuron is a Neuron which fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another (especially Conspecific
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