“…In the last decade, there has been an increasing number of studies exploring the ability of Physarum to construct efficient networks (Nakagaki, Yamada & Tóth, ; Tero et al ., ; Reid & Beekman, ), make optimal foraging decisions (Latty & Beekman, , , , b , ; Reid et al ., , ), optimise nutrient intake (Dussutour et al ., ), habituate to unfavourable stimuli (Boisseau, Vogel & Dussutour, ), find its way out of mazes and traps using its external memory system (Reid et al ., ; Smith‐Ferguson et al ., ), and even transfer learned behaviour (Vogel & Dussutour, ). Most, if not all, of these studies relied on iterations of basically the same genetic individual to achieve their sample size.…”