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.

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Published
2000-10-01
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Proximate and ultimate causation, Sociocultural evolution, Natural selection, Evolutionary biology, Darwinism

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