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In [[evolutionary psychology]], people often speak of the '''four Fs''' which are said to be the four basic and most primal drives ([[motivation]]s or [[instincts]]) that [[animal]]s (including humans) are [[evolutionarily]] [[adapted]] to have, follow, and achieve: [[fight-or-flight response|''fighting'', ''fleeing'']], [[eating|''feeding'']] and [[reproduction|''mating'']] (the final word beginning with the letter "M" rather than "F" is a reticent allusion to the cruder synonym "[[fuck]]").<ref name="Kurzban 2011">{{cite book | last=Kurzban | first=Robert| title=Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind | publisher=Princeton University Press | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-4008-3599-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JZVYEUb0Tq0C | access-date=April 24, 2022 | page=159}}</ref>
The list of the four activities appears to have been first introduced in the late 1950s and early 1960s in articles by psychologist [[Karl H. Pribram]], with the fourth entry in the list being known by terms such as "sex"<ref name="Pribram60">{{cite journal|title=A Review of Theory in Physiological Psychology|journal=[[Annual Review of Psychology]]|date=January 1960|volume=60|issue=1|pages=1–40|last=Pribram|first=Karl H.|author-link=Karl H. Pribram|doi=10.1146/annurev.ps.11.020160.000245|url=https://saltworks.stanford.edu/assets/sw906gh1421.pdf}}</ref>{{rp|11,13}} or occasionally "
Conventionally, the four Fs were described as adaptations which helped the organism to find food, avoid danger, defend its territory, et cetera. However, in his book ''[[The Selfish Gene]]'', [[Richard Dawkins]] argued that adaptive traits do not evolve to benefit individual organisms, but to benefit the passing on of genes.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The evolution of culture|last=Linquist|first=Stefan Paul|publisher=Ashgate|year=2010|isbn=978-0754627616|location=Farnham|oclc=619142755}}</ref>
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