HOW AND WHY. “More than 50 years ago Ernst Mayr introduced the distinction between “proximate” and “ultimate” causes in biology. In this now classical theory, proximate causes act via short-term physiological processes, and ultimate causes act via long-term evolutionary processes. Put simply, the proximate cause addresses the question of “how?” and the ultimate cause addresses the “why?”.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022