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and reason about the organic world. Humans everywhere classify Animal s and Plants into obvious Species -like groups. The relationship between a Folk Taxonomy and a Scientific Classification can assist in understanding how Evolutionary Theory deals with the apparent constancy of “common species” and the organic processes centering on them. From the vantage of Evolutionary Psychology , such natural systems are arguably routine “habits of mind,” a sort of Heuristic used to make sense of the natural world.


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  • Medin, Douglas L., and Scott Atran , eds. ''Folkbiology.'' 1999: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-63192-X.



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  • ), in Robert Wilson and Frank Keil , Ed. ''The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences'', pages 316-317. MIT Press.