Proximate and ultimate causes: how come? and what for?

Abstract Proximate and ultimate causes in evolutionary biology have come to conflate two distinctions. The first is a distinction between immediate and historical causes. The second is between explanations of mechanism and adaptive function. Mayr emphasized the first distinction but many evolutionar...
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Autor*in:

Haig, David [verfasserIn]

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E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2013

Schlagwörter:

Proximate cause

Ultimate cause

Efficient cause

Final cause

Intentionality

Adaptation

Natural selection

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: Biology & philosophy - Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V, 1986, 28(2013), 5 vom: 03. Apr., Seite 781-786

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:28 ; year:2013 ; number:5 ; day:03 ; month:04 ; pages:781-786

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DOI / URN:

10.1007/s10539-013-9369-z

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SPR011000805

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