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22 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 07 July 2015 09:40PM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 15 July 2015 03:46:06PM 0 points [-]

children's instincts not so much.

Oh, they are very reliable ... toward doing only those things that are really necessary. The genes don't know whether the laundry is necessary. It might be it might be not. There will have been comparable tasks in the ancestral environment. It is adaptive to have a drive that looks for more potential.