There are behaviours that individuals of a given species cannot learn, or have great difficulty learning, because of a conflict with innate patterns of behaviour, a concept known as
A) Equipotentiality
B) Instinctive drift
C) Distinctive drift
D) Evolutionary drive

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Instinctive drift refers to the tendency of animals to revert to their innate behaviors even when they are trained to perform different behaviors. This means that there are behaviors that individuals cannot learn, or have great difficulty learning, because of a conflict with their innate patterns of behavior. The other choices (A, C, and D) do not accurately describe this concept.

There Are Behaviours That Individuals of a Given Species Cannot