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![Foraging is an example of an instinct driven by impulses serving specific biological functions.
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Foraging is an example of an instinct driven by impulses serving specific biological functions.[Credits : Scott Bauer—ARS/USDA]
Charles Darwin, c. 1867.[Credits : The Granger Collection, New York]
Sigmund Freud, c. 1910.[Credits : Imagno/Austrian Archives/Getty Images]
Konrad Lorenz being followed by greylag geese (Anser anser), 1960.[Credits : Nina Leen—Time Life Pictures/Getty Images]
Nikolaas Tinbergen.[Credits : Nina Leen—Time Life Pictures/Getty Images]
Male three-spined stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus) display instinctive …[Credits : Ron Offermans]
Honeybees demonstrate instinctive behaviours that require minimal involvement of experience or …[Credits : Konrad Wothe—Science Faction/Getty Images]
Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx).[Credits : Russ Kinne/Photo Researchers]
Mating behaviour in animals is instinctive.[Credits : © Corbis]
The courtship displays of animals such as the male frigate bird (Fregata minor) are …[Credits : © Kojo Tanaka, Animals Animals]
Migration of birds and other animals is based on instinctive behaviour.[Credits : Layne Kennedy/Corbis]
Whether instinct is construed as an urge or drive or as a way of behaving, genetic inheritance is usually either explicitly asserted or implicitly assumed. Indeed, there are contexts in which a claim of genetic a priori (being independent of experience) is virtually the sole point of appeal to instinct.
Language serves as a useful example. In the 1950s American linguist Noam Chomsky forcefully argued that, although children pick up the language and dialect they hear spoken around them, they must do so on the basis of prior grammatical knowledge, constituting a “language acquisition device” that they are ... (100 of 6763 words) Learn more about "instinct"
Aspects of the topic instinct are discussed in the following places at Britannica.
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