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Tinbergen's questions sorting activity – crossing road – mechanism, development, phylogeny

Students sort different causal explanations for a behavior into Tinbergen’s four questions.
This activity is about the example of crossing a street when the traffic light turns green. This activity only concerns causes over time – proximate mechanism, development, cultural history, and phylogeny.
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