caa a22 4500 605448078 CHVBK 20210128100135.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10539-014-9448-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10539-014-9448-9 Otsuka Jun Department of Philosophy, University of California, Davis, 1240 Social Science and Humanities, One Shields Avenue, 95616, Davis, CA, USA aut Using causal models to integrate proximate and ultimate causation [Elektronische Daten] [Jun Otsuka] Ernst Mayr's classical work on the nature of causation in biology has had a huge influence on biologists as well as philosophers. Although his distinction between proximate and ultimate causation recently came under criticism from those who emphasize the role of development in evolutionary processes, the formal relationship between these two notions remains elusive. Using causal graph theory, this paper offers a unified framework to systematically translate a given "proximate” causal structure into an "ultimate” evolutionary response, and illustrates evolutionary implications of various kinds of causal mechanisms including epigenetic inheritance, maternal effects, and niche construction. These results not only reveal the essential interplay between proximate and ultimate causation in the study of evolution, but also provide a formal method to evaluate or discover non-standard or yet unknown evolutionary phenomena. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Proximate and ultimate causation nationallicence Extended synthesis nationallicence Epigenetic inheritance nationallicence Niche construction nationallicence Causal models nationallicence Price equation nationallicence Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/1(2015-01-01), 19-37 0169-3867 30:1<19 2015 30 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9448-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9448-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Otsuka Jun Department of Philosophy, University of California, Davis, 1240 Social Science and Humanities, One Shields Avenue, 95616, Davis, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/1(2015-01-01), 19-37 0169-3867 30:1<19 2015 30 10539