The proximate-ultimate confusion in teaching and cooperation

The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Alex Thornton, Nichola J Raihani

Abstract

Kline does an admirable job of extending the functionalist framework developed by comparative researchers to help understand the function and form of human teaching. Functionalist approaches consider the adaptive value and underlying mechanisms of behaviour as separate but complementary questions, avoiding the conflation of ultimate and proximate explanations that has long hindered research on teaching and other forms of cooperation.

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