innate

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By doing so, it links the body's two main defense systems -- innate and adaptive immunity -- into a coordinated and longer lasting response.

From Science Daily

How much sleep you need—and the timing—is innate.

From The Wall Street Journal

Clara Davis, an influential pediatrician, taught that children possessed innate wisdom, and thus their preferences and cravings were a better guide to what they should eat than the dreary and tyrannical “dosage method.”

From The Wall Street Journal

They display an innate curiosity and astonishing degrees of empathy, intelligence and perceptiveness, with subjects ranging from public and social institutions to cultural and specialized spaces and the minutiae of human interactions.

From Los Angeles Times

“But also, Jeanette was a true journalist, which means she had an innate curiosity about everything.”

From Los Angeles Times