Afinal, o que é Seleção por Consequências?

The Skinner's proposal entitled 'Selection by Consequences' seems to ensure a commitment to selectionistepistemology. This notion, however, lacks a consensual definition in the area. The aim of this article is topropose a conceptualization of Skinnerian proposal. We have examined such explanatory proposalthrough an analysis of the main Skinnerian texts on the subject, in order to delimit the sufficient anddefining aspects of this scientific proposal. We have concluded that 'selection by consequences' can bedefined as a causal mode based on a probabilistic interdependence relationship between events, whichexplains the origin and evolution of behavioral phenomena as product of three histories of variation andselection: phylogenetic, ontogenetic and cultural