Instinctive Behavior

Instinctive behavior is a heritable complex reflex or chain of reflexes formed during evolution, is a kind of behavior that can be exhibited by individuals without learning, and is also known as innate behavior. Human understanding of natural behavior began at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Natural theologians believed that natural behaviors that did not need to be learned, such as honeybee nesting, were programs that were pre-implanted by God at the time of individual birth. With the deepening of the understanding of nature and the accumulation of knowledge, human beings gradually abandon theological supernatural understanding of natural behavior, and begin to seek to understand natural behavior from the perspective of nature. French biologist Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck proposed two core theories of animal behavior evolution, namely, the hereditary theory of acquired characteristics and the kinetic theory of use and disuse. On the basis of Lamack’s theory, Charles Darwin made.