Call of the Wild

How does the author define "instincts"?

In chapter 4

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Far more potent were the memories of his heredity that gave things he had never seen before a seeming familiarity; the instincts (which were but the memories of his ancestors become habits) which had lapsed in later days, and still later, in him, quickened and became alive again.

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Call of the Wild, Chapter Four

How doesn’t the author define instincts