Behavior and the General Evolutionary Process
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Summary
A general view of evolutionary process clarifies the distinction between proximate and ultimate explanations of behavior, which may be seen as nested: cultural evolution within genetic evolution, and operant evolution within cultural evolution.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2000-10-01
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 37
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Keywords
Proximate and ultimate causation, Sociocultural evolution, Natural selection, Evolutionary biology, Darwinism
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- Evolutionary Psychology
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