Ther time scale of evlolution is a few orders of magnitude longer than learning process. So perhaps we are not talking about "hard-wired knowldedge but "physics

Ther time scale of evlolution is a few orders of magnitude longer than learning process. So perhaps we are not talking about "hard-wired knowldedge but "physics intuition" in the context of how babies response to those "artificial" magic tricks. > In one recent experiment, for example, Aimee E. Stahl and Lisa Feigenson of Johns Hopkins showed 11-month-old babies a sort of magic trick. Either a ball appeared to pass through a solid wall, or a toy car appeared to roll off the end of a shelf and remain suspended in thin air. The babies apparently knew enough about everyday physics to be surprised by these strange events and paid a lot of attention to them.