Consider Niko Tinbergen's Four Levels of Explanation and Complete the Following

question 28

Multiple Choice

Consider Niko Tinbergen's four levels of explanation and complete the following sentence: ________ explanations tell us about the immediate mechanisms that precipitate a particular disease, and ________ explanations tell us how processes such as natural selection leave the body vulnerable to disease.

• A) Developmental; phylogenetic
• B) Evolutionary; developmental
• C) Proximate; evolutionary
• D) Phylogenetic; proximate

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