questions'' '''proximate''' br '''''how''''' individual organism 's structures function '''ontogeny''' br developmental explanations changes '''''individuals''''' dna current form '''mechanism''' br mechanistic explanations organism 's structures work '''evolutionary''' br '''''why''''' species evolved structures adaptations '''phylogeny''' br history evolution sequential changes '''' 'species''''' many generations '''adaptation''' br species trait evolved solve reproductive survival problem ancestral environment premises evolutionary psychology founded several core premises brain information processing device
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