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Humans search out regularities in natural events.
The anthropologist Richard Leakey suggested that our ability to remember regular patterns has been the singular human ability that secured our survival as a species, since it enables us to predict the future from present events. When an event doesn't seem to conform to a known pattern, we orient toward it and talk about it, write about it, and try to repeat the event until we either fit it into a known pattern or make it a new pattern not previously known. When this analytic impulse are turned upon regularities in the behavior and experience of individual living organisms, it's called psychology. It has only been recently that the search for regularities in behavior has been based on systematic observations of behavior scientific psychology. The search for regularities in behavior has a much longer history as a subject of philosophy, law, politics, medicine, and religious practice.