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Ultimate mechanisms (or causes)

Posted byBrian Hopkins May 22, 2019

Determinants that have been incorporated into a system over many thousands of generations (i.e., over evolutionary time) by means of natural selection or other evolutionary mechanisms (e.g., genetic drift in isolated populations).

See Causality (in philosophy), Evolutionary psychology, Genetic drift (or random walk), Proximate mechanisms (or causes)

Posted byBrian HopkinsMay 22, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: glossary

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