More on how and why: a response to commentaries

Kevin Neville Laland; John Odling-Smee; William Hoppitt; Tobias Uller

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More on how and why: a response to commentaries

Kevin Neville Laland, John Odling-Smee, William Hoppitt, Tobias Uller

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	793-810
Journal	Biology and Philosophy
Volume	28
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-013-9380-4
Publication status	Published - Sept 2013

Keywords

Proximate causation
Ultimate causation
Mayr
Niche construction
Developmental plasticity
Developmental bias
Extended evolutionary synthesis

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