Response to Comment on "Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection".
Siepielski AM., Morrissey MB., Buoro M., Carlson SM., Caruso CM., Clegg SM., Coulson T., DiBattista J., Gotanda KM., Francis CD., Hereford J., Kingsolver JG., Augustine KE., Kruuk LEB., Martin RA., Sheldon BC., Sletvold N., Svensson EI., Wade MJ., MacColl ADC.
The comment by Myers-Smith and Myers focuses on three main points: (i) the lack of a mechanistic explanation for climate-selection relationships, (ii) the appropriateness of the climate data used in our analysis, and (iii) our focus on estimating climate-selection relationships across (rather than within) taxonomic groups. We address these critiques in our response.