How does something become an instinct?

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It always puzzled me that certain animals are born with abilities or understandings of things they have never experienced.

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When a behavior provides a distinct survival advantage, then evolution selects for it. Individuals without this behavior get killed before they have time to reproduce. Over time, individuals without the behavior at birth don’t survive as long as those that do and eventually all the remaining individuals have that trait.

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