What can ecosystems learn? Expanding evolutionary ecology with learning theory

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@karst_justine This may have gotten lost(?): a couple of modern approaches to this question: https://t.co/HIZpMeYPu4 https://t.co/D0gJC9rK9V

“…Despite not being a Darwinian unit, ecological communities can behave like connectionist learning systems…that habituate to past environmental conditions and actively recall…those conditions.” Power, Watson, Szathmary et al 2015 https://t.co/yKR5woHNhp

RT @KLIAustria: @Trends_Ecol_Evo Many kinds of learning, many kinds of memory. Phenotypes to remember: Evolutionary #developmental memory…