Consider Niko Tinbergen's four levels of explanation and complete the following sentence: ________ explanations tell us about the immediate mechanisms that precipitate a particular disease, and ________ explanations tell us how processes such as natural selection leave the body vulnerable to disease.

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Proximate explanations tell us about the immediate mechanisms that precipitate a particular disease, and evolutionary explanations tell us how processes such as natural selection leave the body vulnerable to disease. These correspond to Tinbergen's levels of proximate and ultimate explanations. Of the options given, only C correctly matches the proximate and evolutionary levels to their corresponding explanations.

Consider Niko Tinbergen's Four Levels of Explanation and Complete the Following