Life: The Science of Biology
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Chapter 52, Problem 2Q
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The investigation to find whether energy trade-offs used by female burying beetles is due to proximate or ultimate causes on the basis of questions posed by Tinbergen.
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The proximate causes are immediate factors, which include a physiological, genetic, neurological, and developmental process that controls the action performed by an individual in a given time. The ultimate causes are long-term factors or evolutionary changes, which determine the overall species-specific behavior. These causes give rise to tendency and capacity in an animal to behave in a specific way.
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