“…The emergence of biological thought has been extensively studied (for reviews, see Gutheil, Vera, & Keil, 1998;Inagaki & Hatano, 2002;Keil, 2007), and the literature contains detailed discussions of how the distinguishing properties of the living world*and of thinking about those properties*make biology into a distinct cognitive domain (Atran et al, 2001;Inagaki & Hatano, 2002). There are some notable differences between populations and cultures, but certain phenomena are robust across populations, a finding INFERENCE IN FOLK DOMAINS 819 consistent with the notion of an innate specialised capability that facilitates the mental processing of biological information (Astuti, Solomon, & Carey, 2004;Carey, 2011;Hatano & Inagaki, 1996Medin & Atran, 2004;Ross, Medin, Coley, & Atran, 2003;Tarlowski, 2006).…”