So are animals, born and ready to do what they evolved to do to live and reproduce, complex mating rituals and nest building

Interesting read, but I think the conclusion is a bit of a stretch. That’s like saying “A car is pre-configured to roll down a hill, even before you put gas in it.”

More fitting would be to say that the absolute baseline of reactive brain activity is much more primitive than we thought.

I call bullshit. I have literally no idea what is going on