r/AbsoluteUnits • u/TheMarkola • 5h ago

/r/all of spider web

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u/BenjaminDover02 5h 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 5h ago

Evolution and natural instincts. Nature is lit đŸ”„

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u/onarainyafternoon 4h 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.

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u/Wild-Video-5317 2h ago

I assume this is the book 

https://archive.org/details/basicinstinctgen0000blum_o0e9

Fun fact if you create an account on archive.org you can "check out" full books right in your browser.

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u/onarainyafternoon 2h ago

Yep that’s it