THE INFLUENCE OF LEARNING ON EVOLUTION Although evolution and learning are two distinct kinds of change which occur in two distinct types of entities (populations and individual organisms), they may influence each other. An influence of evolution on learning can be easily understood within a Darwinian framework because this framework provides a mechanism through which the influence can be realized: the inherited genotype is simultaneously the result of evolution and a partial cause of the phenotypic individual and its learning tendencies. A Darwinian framework makes the opposite influence of learning on evolution much more difficult to explain. Learning is realized as changes in the phenotypic individual but these changes are not inherited. Therefore, learning should have no effect on the course of evolution. We present simulative results that show how learning influence evolution. In this simulations the learning task and the evolutionary task are kept distinct.