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Folk biology (orfolkbiology) is thecognitive study of how people classify and reason about the organic world. Humans everywhere classifyanimals andplants into obviousspecies-like groups. The relationship between afolk taxonomy and ascientific classification can assist in understanding howevolutionary theory deals with the apparent constancy of "common species" and the organic processes centering on them. From the vantage ofevolutionary psychology, such natural systems are arguably routine "habits of mind", a sort ofheuristic used to make sense of the natural world.[1]
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