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In evolutionary psychology, people often speak of the four Fs which are said to be the four basic and most primal drives (motivations or instincts) that animals (including humans) are evolutionarily adapted to have, follow, and achieve: fighting, fleeing, feeding and fucking (a more polite synonym is the word "mating"). [1]
Instinct is the inherent inclination of a living organism towards a particular complex behaviour, containing innate (inborn) elements.The simplest example of an instinctive behaviour is a fixed action pattern (FAP), in which a very short to medium length sequence of actions, without variation, are carried out in response to a corresponding clearly defined stimulus.
The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us. [88] John Webster, a professor of animal husbandry at Bristol, argues: People have assumed that intelligence is linked to the ability to suffer and that because animals have smaller brains they suffer less than humans.
Darwin suggests sympathy is at the core of sociability and is an instinctive emotion found in most social animals.The ability to recognize and act upon others' distress or danger, is a suggestive evidence of instinctive sympathy; common mutual services found among many social animals, such as hunting and travelling in groups, warning others of danger and mutually defending one another, are ...
Early humans were nowhere near as equipped to deal with danger as we are now -- so a wild animal or a person we don't know approaching us could be a sign of potential danger. Nowadays, we don't ...
At the heart of such belief systems is the concept of kinship, which extends beyond human relationships and includes elements of the natural world. [16] Humans, other animals, plants and soil are seen as dependent on each other for survival and health. [15]
Humans have a far faster and more accurate throw than other animals. [172] Humans are also among the best long-distance runners in the animal kingdom, but slower over short distances. [173] [161] Humans' thinner body hair and more productive sweat glands help avoid heat exhaustion while running for long distances. [174]
[5] James wrote that humans had many instincts, even more than other animals. [5] These instincts, he said, could be overridden by experience and by each other, as many of the instincts were actually in conflict with each other. [5] In their Evolutionary Psychology Primer Tooby and Cosmides make note of James' perspective, and also quote him ...