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Basic instinct

Unexplainable

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Is There a Semantic Debate About Instinct?

This week's episode of the Unexplainable is about animal behavior. Mark Whitaker: Is it too much of a stretch to connect instinctive things with Nazi ideology? Mandy Nguyen asks how smart small plants are. And Bird Pinkerton finds herself in a long, featureless hallway lit by flickering fluorescent lights.

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