Four Fs (other)
Four Fs may stand for: * Four Fs (evolution), "fighting, fleeing, feeding, and fornicating" * Four Fs (legal), "fruit, fungi, flowers, and foliage" * Four Fs as applied in military parlance, "find, fix, flank, and finish" * Friedrich Ludwig Jahn's "frisch, fromm, fröhlich, frei" ("fresh, pious, cheerful, free") See also * 4F (other) *F4 (other) F4, F.IV, F04, F 4, F.4 or F-4 may refer to: Aircraft * Flanders F.4, a 1910s British experimental military two-seat monoplane aircraft * Martinsyde F.4 Buzzard, a British World War I fighter version of the Martinsyde Buzzard biplane * Fokk ...

Four Fs (evolution)
In evolutionary psychology, people often speak of the four Fs which are said to be the four basic and most primal drives (motivations or instincts) that animals (including humans) are evolutionarily adapted to have, follow, and achieve: ''fighting'', ''fleeing'', ''feeding'' and ''mating'' (the final word beginning with the letter "M" rather than "F" is a reticent allusion to the cruder synonym "fuck"). The list of the four activities appears to have been first introduced in the late 1950s and early 1960s in articles by psychologist Karl H. Pribram, with the fourth entry in the list being known by terms such as "sex" or occasionally "fornicating", although he himself did not use the term "four Fs". Conventionally, the four Fs were described as adaptations which helped the organism to find food, avoid danger, defend its territory, et cetera. However, in his book ''The Selfish Gene'', Richard Dawkins argued that adaptive traits do not evolve to benefit individual organisms, but to ...
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