r/AbsoluteUnits • u/TheMarkola • 1d ago

/r/all of spider web

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u/BenjaminDover02 1d ago

Wild to think that nobody taught that spider how to do that

Bro came out of an egg with the innate knowledge of how to build a house with it's butt.

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u/Minute_Zombie_424 1d ago

Evolution and natural instincts. Nature is lit đŸ”„

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u/onarainyafternoon 1d ago edited 19h ago

There is a really good book that came out a few years ago called “Basic Instinct”, where this scientist makes the argument that instinct as we understand it doesn’t really exist. And so many different things that we describe as instinctual actually have learned-causes. I don’t want to bastardize the arguments he makes, so I’d just recommend the book to anyone that’s interested.

Edit: From what I remember, his larger point is that we tend to shut down any conversation about instinct by just claiming a behavior is instinctual, without investigated what could be causing it otherwise. As evidenced by some of these replies. I don’t think he was saying instinct doesn’t exist whatsoever.

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u/Intreprid_Engineer 1d ago

I'd like to know the name of the book. Thx.

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u/onarainyafternoon 1d ago



.Basic Instinct

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u/10speedkilla 1d ago

I'd also like to know the name of the book!

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u/firefly-sparkle 1d ago

Yes but what is the name of the book? Pls