| Questions | Psychological Meaning | Metaphorical Meaning |
| 1. What is explained? | The B behavior of individual X's. | The establishment of B as a phenotypic trait of X's. |
| 2. What caused what? | A representation in X's of Y causes X's to exhibit the behavior B. | X's doing B in the EEA caused increased fitness which caused selection to favor B. |
| Must a representation by X's of Y be involved? | Yes. | No. |
| Must evolutionary mechanisms be involved? | No (not any interesting ones). | Yes (we use metaphors to describe evolutionary scenarios). |
| Are there any interesting implications about malleability of B's in individual X's? | Almost none. | None outside of the EEA. |