survival instinct

I think filling the gaping holes in our knowledge with made-up (and often wrong) information is some sort of a natural survival instinct.

She decided later it was base survival instinct that caused her to fling the seeds at the moist soil in the potato patch.

Fluctuating market conditions bring out a survival instinct that sometimes makes them commit illegal or immoral acts.

Some creativity experts believe a lack of sleep draws on a survival instinct that opens up unused portions of your mind.

Survival instinct is universal. As for the desire to live forever, that is far from universal.

Some may argue to this that knowing who to trust, part of our survival instinct.

Survival instinct, not lasting strategic trust, compelled the two countries to seek cooperation.

Their survival instinct means they need to find out whether the man is committed, has a good personality and is a good provider.

But the response may be a survival instinct in which humans learn to avoid pain in the future, they argue.

Many artistic people, many artists, are buried under this material survival instinct; they cannot go beyond.

But most employees are driven by a mix of goodwill, inner motivation and survival instinct.

Your character has a well-developed survival instinct that warns him of impending danger.

From their most basic survival instinct, gay men in San Francisco created a world-renowned model for responding to the virus.

Hu's survival instinct means that he is neither a liberal nor a conservative. He's a pragmatist.

Anger stems from a survival instinct, experts say.

I think this is a built-in survival instinct that makes us blend in and lose our individuality.