Innate and non-innate
learning.
Innate learning: The traits that are inborn rather than acquired or learned.
These three areas of
human knowledge and skill can be called folk physics, folk biology and folk
psychology.
Navigate in a
three-dimensional world of physical objects, understand trajectories, judge
movement, and mentally represent and manipulate objects (crucial to tool use);
Classify flora and
fauna into edible/inedible/medicinal, and prey/predator; navigate a social
world (especially since they lived in groups)
Recognize faces,
read facial expressions, recognize kin, divide the world into in- and out-group
members, use language and infer other people's mental states.
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