I have outlined a view of a total combination (no separation) between major sets of behaviors (actually behavior PATTERNS) AND that which is innate. This allows us to potentially come to actually see "the innate" AS aspects of behavior patterns themselves -- and both TOGETHER as responses (or, 'the response', if you like , when able to see the new patterns AT FIRST) to aspects of the environment. This is not only an empirical hope, but is a tenet to be held if one is an empiricist and it has not been disproved (a disproof seemingly "more than unlikely").
To think like this is to think in terms of adaptedness or adaptivity: seeing major behavior patterns AS literally BOTH learning AND innately-guided at the same time -- where not only major behavior patterns for learning show innate guidance, but where (at the same time) the innate guidance ITSELF IS integral aspects of these very (self-same) major behavior patterns (at their inception/first use) AND likely seen as PART OF some important behavior [pattern] changes (essential learnings), or otherwise: THERE, and certainly and clearly necessarily involved with such learnings.
This would cover "adaption WITH" and "adaption TO" major environmental aspects -- all which is to be expected in species-typical behaviors (no matter what the exact morphology).
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