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Ultimate explanations cite species concepts that assign species evolutionary roles.
Ultimate explanations are of considerable value in the patient doctor interaction.
So despite the temptations to think otherwise, ultimate explanations in science cannot invoke supernatural causation.
That is, ultimate explanations of phenomena and of contingent entities can only rest in what itself requires no explanation.
Ultimate explanations cite the evolutionary cause of a trait in a species, for example, the selection forces that caused the evolution of thumbs in pandas and their ancestors.
Our study is one of the first to assess proximate and ultimate explanations for changes in personality as a function of reproduction and parenting.
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Whatever the ultimate explanation, I think it was a bad move.
Other philosophers claim that laws of nature are simply brute regularities in the natural world, which have no ultimate explanation.
Whatever the ultimate explanation may be, the advantage appears to extend to other types of thinking, too.
But recently, a small group of scientists has begun to explore the idea that the ultimate explanation lies deep in the evolutionary past.
Neither does the ultimate explanation of the fate of the children's mother, nor why Will behaves as he does, particularly towards Alice.
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