We are grateful to the commentators for taking the time to respond to our article. Too many interesting and important points have been raised for us to tackle them all in this response, and so in the below we have sought to draw out the major themes. These include problems with both the term ‘ultimate causation’ and the proximate-ultimate causation dichotomy more generally, clarification of the meaning of reciprocal causation, discussion of issues related to the nature of development and phenotypic plasticity and their roles in evolution, and consideration of the need for an extended evolutionary synthesis.

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更多关于方式和原因：对评论的回应

我们感谢评论员抽出时间回复我们的文章。在本次回应中提出了太多有趣和重要的观点，我们无法一一解决，因此在下文中，我们试图勾勒出主要主题。这些包括术语“最终因果关系”和更普遍的近最终因果关系二分法的问题，澄清相互因果关系的含义，讨论与发展的性质和表型可塑性及其在进化中的作用有关的问题，以及考虑扩展进化综合的需要。