More on how and why: a response to commentaries

We are grateful to the commentators for taking the time to respond to our article. Too many interesting and important points have been raised for us to tackle them all in this response, and so in the below we have sought to draw out the major themes. These include problems with both the term ‘ultima...

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Autores principales: Laland, Kevin N., Odling-Smee, John, Hoppitt, William, Uller, Tobias
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3745615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23970808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-013-9380-4
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description We are grateful to the commentators for taking the time to respond to our article. Too many interesting and important points have been raised for us to tackle them all in this response, and so in the below we have sought to draw out the major themes. These include problems with both the term ‘ultimate causation’ and the proximate-ultimate causation dichotomy more generally, clarification of the meaning of reciprocal causation, discussion of issues related to the nature of development and phenotypic plasticity and their roles in evolution, and consideration of the need for an extended evolutionary synthesis.
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spelling pubmed-37456152013-08-20 More on how and why: a response to commentaries Laland, Kevin N. Odling-Smee, John Hoppitt, William Uller, Tobias Biol Philos Article We are grateful to the commentators for taking the time to respond to our article. Too many interesting and important points have been raised for us to tackle them all in this response, and so in the below we have sought to draw out the major themes. These include problems with both the term ‘ultimate causation’ and the proximate-ultimate causation dichotomy more generally, clarification of the meaning of reciprocal causation, discussion of issues related to the nature of development and phenotypic plasticity and their roles in evolution, and consideration of the need for an extended evolutionary synthesis. Springer Netherlands 2013-05-22 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3745615/ /pubmed/23970808 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-013-9380-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2013 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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