[asdff]

We have similar compulsions too. Humans have an instinct to seek shelter, for example. You might say "well thats because we are taught this etc etc" but at the same time, all great apes shelter, our hominid ancestors sheltered, we shelter today, there is clearly an instinct to shelter even if we have these conscious thoughts around it. I bet if you had a perfectly feral human and had them in a clearing in a rain storm, they would try and find some shelter from it in the forest without being taught any wilderness survival basics.

[jstanley]

Of course this is true.

But if you put a feral human in the middle of a clearing in a rainstorm, they wouldn't build modern civilisation.

Beavers only do what is innate and what they can independently invent in one lifetime, because they aren't substantially sharing knowledge.