Conspecificity is a concept in biology. Two or more individual organisms, populations, or taxa are termed conspecific if they belong to the same species. For the song by Girls Aloud see Biology (song) Biology studies the variety of life (clockwise from top-left) E. coli, tree fern, gazelle, Goliath beetle Biology (from Greek: βίος, bio, life; and λόγος, logos, speech lit. ... Life on Earth redirects here. ... A taxon (plural taxa) is an element of a taxonomy, e. ... For other uses, see Species (disambiguation). ...
The antonym is heterospecificity: two individuals are heterospecific if they are considered to belong to different biological species. Look up Antonym in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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. Locations of mirror neurons A mirror neuron is a neuron which fires both when an animal performs an action and when the animal observes the same action performed by another (especially conspecific) animal. ...
Conspecific congruence probably developed out of the structures in the brain that underlie the ability to form classes of groups with perceived similarities.
Conspecific congruence is asserted when all members behave to maintain social balance within a group.
A positive change in conspecific congruence occurs with kindness or a favor, with the consequent obligation to return it to balance the incongruence.
Others have suggested that the mere presence of a conspecific will facilitate the acquisition of a new response for the same reason (Gardner and Engel, 1971) or because the conspecific may have the ability to reduce fear in the observer (Davitz and Mason, 1955; Morrison and Hill, 1967).
Being in the presence of an active conspecific (i.e., one that is working for food but that is responding in a way that is irrelevant to the target response) might constitute an even better control than mere presence.
It appears that exposure to a fearful conspecific or to a snake alone is insufficient to produce fear of snakes in the observer.
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