The proximate–ultimate distinction and evolutionary developmental biology: causal irrelevance versus explanatory abstraction

Published 2014 View Full Article

Authors

Keywords

Proximate–ultimate distinction, Ernst Mayr, Evolutionary developmental biology, Niche construction, Plasticity, Abstraction, Methodology, Pere Alberch

Journal

BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

Volume 30, Issue 5, Pages 653-670

Publisher

Springer Nature

Online

2014-02-04

DOI

10.1007/s10539-014-9427-1

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