His mother and his wife have written memoirs about living with him, as have touring musicians who were only briefly proximate to his genius.
Until then, only proximate answers will exist to the question of where dogs came from.
For example, it may be possible to use ligand binding site knowledge to limit the search only to fragments proximate to the binding site, and to alter the smoothing associated with such focused studies.
But nobody did, in fact, follow their pioneering route, at least not on anything like the same scale.The only proximate followers were the big accounting firms which had ambitions to build legal practices as global as their accounting businesses.
Rarely do biologists assume only proximate or only ultimate causes explain phenomena; rarely do they assume only one proximate or ultimate cause instead, research in evolutionary biology typically seeks to disentangle the relative effects of these various causes.
Hence, this move is worth considering, even though it has never been developed and deviates far from traditional consequentialism, which counts not only proximate consequences but all upshots — that is, everything for which the act is a causally necessary condition.
While it is likely that both provide only proximate measures for human impacts on forest structure at local scales, it may also suggest that climate and legal protection are by far the most important controls on forest canopy structure and functioning.
The climatic variables that we used as predictors were for the most part only proximate factors, not direct (physiological) factors.
In sessile organisms in which the only proximate partner is a clone- mate, self-fertilization becomes the only method of achieving meiotically-driven genetic variability.
However, since the microenvironment experienced for each individual can be different and because age and size are only proximate measures of maturation tendency, maturation should be considered as a variable process (Heino et al. 2002; Dieckmann and Heino 2007).
