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Causes, proximate and ultimate. Biology and Philosophy. 1990;5(4):401-15. Abstract
Causes, proximate and ultimate. Biology and Philosophy. 1990;5:401-15. Abstract
So-called "ultimate explanations" are not about causes in any sense resembling those of proximate explanations. The attitude, implicit in the term "ultimate cause", that these functional analyses are somehow superordinate to those involving "proximate causes" is unfounded. "Ultimate causes" are neither ultimate nor causes.
