Discussion summary by Magdalena Kozielska: Today we discussed an influential paper by McNamara and Houston “Integrating function and mechanism” (Trends in Ecology & Evolution, (2009) 24:670-675). In our group thinking about mechanisms is common place, but 10 years ago the …
Discussion summary by Elles: In the paper Fawcett et al. describe the behavioral gambit, which in an assumption conceptually closely related to the phenotypic gambit used by behavioral ecologists. The phenotypic gambit states that genetic architecture does not constrain the …
Discussion summary by Magdalena: On the 21st of February we discussed the paper by Richard A. Watson and Eörs Szathmáry “How can evolution learn?”. In this opinion piece the authors pose a strong claim that “learning and evolution share common …