If a scientist is conducting a study of how an animal's senses provide a physiological basis for a particular behavior, what type of causation is she exploring?

A. ultimate causation
B. stereotyped causation
C. ethnological causation
D. proximate causation
E. fixed action pattern causation


Answer: D

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