In recent years it has come to be realized that there are some patterns of behavior seemingly innate but actually fixed at some time after birth in response to some specific stimulus.

For example, the illusion of control, refers to people's seemingly innate desire to believe they can and should control their lives.

The experiments seemed to have made her a psychic, providing her with a seemingly innate ability in hand-to-hand combat, and she is capable of killing or incapacitating several stronger opponents with ease.

In some cases, that seemingly innate knowledge was, in fact, learned.

Diamond's works are characterized as a complex polyphonic approach with strong rhythmic pattern and seemingly innate formal logic.

Moreover, a man's appearance is judged even more critically than a woman's at the office - and then he has to go home and deal with the seemingly innate female preference for a high earner.

Ubuntu is often shown conflicted with a seemingly innate desire to go against his parents' lifestyle; however, rather than being an outright rebellion, this seems to reflect the nature vs. nurture debates.

Then, still in his 30's after six years on the Harvard faculty, he was moved by ambition and his seemingly innate restlessness to enter medical school, from which he graduated in 1985.

Tonight he came closer than he ever had to finding that medium temperature, though a seemingly innate boastfulness was evident once again.

This 'gestalt' or 'whole form' approach sought to understand perception - seemingly innate mental laws which determined the way in which objects are perceived.