natural habitat
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The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.
Infinite product spaces are the natural habitat of probability theory.
The "control mechanism" view of culture begins with the assumption that human thought is basically both social and public - that its natural habitat is the house yard, the market place, and the town square.
I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.
The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.