Ernst Mayr's 'ultimate/proximate' distinction reconsidered and reconstructed

By André Ariew. 2003

128 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Genetics, Global and Planetary Change, History and Philosophy of Science

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In Genetics

1. Vasso Zogza
2. Kostas Kampourakis

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Vasso Zogza
2. Kostas Kampourakis

In History and Philosophy of Science

1. Vasso Zogza
2. Kostas Kampourakis
3. T. Gregory
4. Mike U. Smith

Citations in the corpus

• Preliminary Evolutionary Explanations: A Basic Framework for Conceptual Change and Explanatory Coherence in Evolution (2009, background): “In this perspective two distinct kinds of explanations exist: (a) proximate explanations which are dynamical explanations for individual-level causal events and (b) evolutionary explanations which are statistical explanations that refer to population-level events ( Ariew 2003 ).”