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Re: Instinct
Jeannine Jarvis (jeannine@CAS.NWU.EDU)
Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:53:31 -0500
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>Please forgive a struggling undergrad...I jumped in too soon, before
thinking through what I wanted to say and ignored the difference between
*adaptive* and *adaptation*.
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>So, back to the question: is there such a thing as "maternal instinct"? At
present, I would lean towards saying "no." Instinct = innate, inborn. I'm
not convinced that maternal behaviors are instinctual, in any life form.
Rather, I would go out on a (short?) limb to argue that maternal behavior --
i.e., feeding, protecting -- offspring is a learned behavior.
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>At 04:25 p.m. 7/26/1996 -0400, you wrote:
>>On 26 July 1996, Jeannine Jarvis wrote:
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>>"Instinct is apart from adaptation, is it not?"
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>>How "apart", Jeannine?
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>>Jesse S. Cook III E-Mail: jcook@awod.com
>>Post Office Box 40984 or
>>Charleston, SC 29485 USA 201-9573@mcimail.com
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>>"Our attitude toward others is not determined by who *they* are;
>>it is determined by who *we* are."
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Jeannine Jarvis
Northwestern Univ.
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