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Integrating the Multiple Biological Causes of Human Behavior

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I introduce a range of examples of different causal hypotheses about human mate selection. The hypotheses I focus on come from evolutionary psychology, fluctuating asymmetry research and chemical signaling research. I argue that a major obstacle facing an integrated biology of human behavior is the lack of a causal framework that shows how multiple proximate causal mechanisms can act together to produce components of our behavior.

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Downes, S.M. Integrating the Multiple Biological Causes of Human Behavior. Biol Philos 20, 177–190 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-004-2319-z

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