Are You Using the Instinct to Ask More and Better Questions?

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David Frum: We're calling something instinctive or innate at any benefit that was actually tangible. He says it's not like a fox in a different environment is going to learn how to be a bird. "I've never, in my 30 years of doing this and thinking about it and being a developmentalist, I've never seen a single instance," he says.

How do animals know how to do things like spin a web or build a dam? A neuroscientist argues it's not “instinct.” Something bigger is going on.

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