Archer.Todd at ic.gc.ca wrote: What do you mean by "instinct"? A bird sits on her eggs without knowing they are eggs or that they are going to hatch. Migratory birds follow a route without knowing they are following a route. What do humans do without knowing they are doing it? ...
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CB: A unique human instinct is to use symbols. Human babies have an instinct to suckle, cry. There is instinct in learning to walk or to be bipedal ( as opposed to crawling or walking on your hands or flying ). Some inclinations or tendencies do not come about until later in ontogeny.
Humans have patterns in their behavior that are not learned but from our genetic inheritance. Not every pattern in human behavior is learned.