proximal cause
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proximal
adjective
uk/ˈprɒk.sɪ.məl/us/ˈprɑːk.sə.məl/
near to the centre of the body or to the point of attachment of a bone ...
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cause
noun
uk/kɔːz/us/kɑːz/
the reason why something, especially something ...
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This is paradoxical because brain activity is theproximalcauseof overt behavior, whereas the action of genes is only a distal influence on behavior.
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They maintain that the distal causes of an impairment are potentially independent of the commonproximalcause, allowing one to consider acquired and developmental deficits within the same framework.
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In their view, the framework is equally suitable in both acquired and developmental cases for establishing what they call theproximalcauseof the behavioural impairment.
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Current data are insufficient to identify precisely the causes of the population decline, although hunting seems to be an importantproximalcause.
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The likelyproximalcauseof the final probe failure was overheating, which sensors indicated before signal loss.
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The proximal causes of such variability in the fitness cost between resistance alleles are still unknown.
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What are the proximal causes of consecutive fixations on a word in reading?
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One thing that they have in common, however, is that they are functions describing proximal causes of individual responses.
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Why not go all the way and incorporate all other proximal causes of behavior in an empirically defensible balance?
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It seems, intuitively, that proximal causes should be easier to identify than distal ones, but in this case the reverse appears to be true.
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The proximal causes of such a variability in the fitness cost between resistance alleles are unknown.
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The proximal causes of self-injurious behavior have been widely studied in captive primates; either social or nonsocial factors can trigger this type of behavior.
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