Sympatric and sympatry are terms from biogeography, referring to organisms whose ranges overlap or are even identical, so that they occur together at least in some places. If these organisms are closely related (for example sister species), such a distribution may be the result of sympatric speciation. Sympatric speciation's the genetic divergence of various populations (from a single parent species) inhabiting the same geographic region, such that those populations become different species. Ety… (More on Sympatric)