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Folk biology (or folkbiology ) is the cognitive study of how people classify and reason about the organic world. Humans everywhere classify animals 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. ^[1]

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• Scott Atran (1999) Folk Biology ( PDF ), in Robert Wilson and Frank Keil, Ed. The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences , pages 316-317. MIT Press.

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