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Term: sympatric
Origin: Anc Greek
συν/syn(=together, with)
πατρίς/patris(=fatherland)
πατήρ/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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