“…For example, preschoolers are less selective in their essentialist thinking than older children and adults. They tend to overestimate similarity to birth parents and underestimate environmental influences when attributing properties in a switched-at-birth task, whereas older children and adults are more likely to differentiate between physical properties (e.g., hair color or height) and psycho-behavioral properties (e.g., being good at math or believing in an afterlife), attributing the former to "nature" and the latter to "nurture" (Solomon, Johnson, Zaitchik, & Carey, 1996;Taylor, 1996;Taylor, Rhodes, & Gelman, 2009). Likewise, younger children tend to project a wide range of properties based on taxonomic category membership, whereas older children and adults restrict taxonomic inferences to intrinsic properties (Coley, 2012).…”