I was watching this video recently (https://youtu.be/XAd1DlE7eaU) and in the first few minutes, he mentions something about the robin rotating the eggs under it so the heat distributes evenly. This make me really think.
How do these animals understand the incubation process? How can it understand something complex like knowing how often to rotate the eggs, or even comprehend it needs to rotate them in the first place? Does this suggest that knowledge is passed down through genetics?
In: Biology
You don’t know how you formulated this thought, but you did it without having to figure out how you were to formulate it.
Basically, you don’t need to understand something for you or your body to do it.
We do know some things are passed on through genetics (put an infant human in a standing position and it will start to instinctively walk) but it isn’t, to my knowledge, consistently understand what can be transmitted this way or how it works (for the record, I don’t know how much incubation is thought to be genetic vs. learned. It may vary per species).
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