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work_4if4jlapzfgx3fly5ygwfvdoju	David J. Buller	Individualism and Evolutionary Psychology (Or: In Defense of "Narrow" Functions)	1997	22	.pdf	application/pdf	10333	642	52	Millikan (1993) and Wilson (1994) argue, for different reasons, that the essential reference to the environment in adaptationist explanations of behavior makes (psychological) individualism inconsistent with evolutionary psychology. mechanisms that produce and control behavior that are selected forwhat are standardly called "proximate mechanisms." To put this another way, since it is genes that are transmitted from one generation to whether that account forces a non-individualistic functional individuation of proximate mechanisms. functions of naturally selected proximate mechanisms are non-individualistic. it is a function of a proximate mechanism to produce some effect just Of course, this is only a possible way of viewing the functions of proximate mechanisms and the series of effects they initiate. it, her theory entails that the mechanism is also not performing its function when it effects a color change in the absence of predators. of the function of the behavior produced by a proximate mechanism, 	./cache/work_4if4jlapzfgx3fly5ygwfvdoju.pdf	./txt/work_4if4jlapzfgx3fly5ygwfvdoju.txt