If you allow me to define hunger as a compelling desire, it could then be said that every one of us—without any exception—has five inborn human hungers. These are

These hungers are regarded as inborn because infants and young children naturally express them without ever being taught or prompted by adults.

These facts came to light when my students and I decided to chronicle what primal demands infants and toddlers universally make. The objective of the study was to observe and document what spontaneous actions and primal behaviors infants and very young children demonstrate without any prompting by adults—starting from the moment of birth.

The aim was to find out—based solely on observed behavior—what human infants and young children truly seem to intuitively want, demand, and........

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