Eli5: what causes and how does it work? Innate natural traits and preferences.

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Ask any parent, even from the youngest ages, children show innate preferences especially towards being tidy or shy or determined.

What causes this, but more so, how does it work?

Maybe a gene makes me more likely to be super organized and tidy. Ok. But how is that gene functioning inside me to encourage that behavior?

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We don’t know. The way behavior is driven by physical processes in the body is not very well understood, and what we do understand is usually by observation and experimentation around observations, not derived from any general theories about how behavior works in some grand sense.

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