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Developmental psychologists estimate that infants achieve an adult level of understanding of all basic physics by eight months.

Even children classify living things as such on the basis that they derive from other living things,24 and artifacts on the basis that they are designed for a particular function.

Color matters first for a child or a monkey looking at food, but shape counts first in a tool.

We humans overdetect agency, since it is safer to mistake a twig for a snake than vice versa. And we will interpret something as story if we can.

...explicit spontaneous reference to goals lags behind implicit skills: it does not develop until five years.

By age nine, children seek explanation in terms of cause and goal. By late adolescence, they look for coherence beyond the local episode.

...both children and adults recall events in chronological order even if they have been told them out of order and instructed to recall the information as presented.

--- quoted from B.Boyd, On the origins of stories.