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Tinbergen's four questions: a standalone construct

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Ethology

framework asking of any behaviour its causation, development, survival value and evolutionary history.

In ethology, Tinbergen's four questions refers to framework asking of any behaviour its causation, development, survival value and evolutionary history. This meaning comes from Tinbergen (1963) in Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie.[1]

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  1. Tinbergen, N. (1963). On aims and methods of Ethology. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie, 20(4), 410-433. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1963.tb01161.x

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