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Title: | Cultural transmission between and within generations |
Authors: | Acerbi, Alberto Parisi, Domenico |
Keywords: | Artificial Life;Cultural Transmission;Cultural Evolution;Horizontal Cultural Transmission |
Issue Date: | 31-Jan-2006 |
Publisher: | SimSoc Consortium |
Citation: | JASSS, 2006, 9 (1), pp. 1 - 16 |
Abstract: | We describe some simulations that compare cultural transmission between and within generations (inter-generational vs intra-generational transmission) in populations of embodied agents controlled by neural networks. Our results suggest that intra-generational transmission has the role of adding variability to the evolutionary process and that this function seems particularly useful when the population lives in a rapidly changing environment. Adaptation to environmental change is slower if cultural transmission is purely inter-generational while it is faster if a certain amount of intra-generational cultural transmission makes it possible to remove earlier and no longer suitable behaviors, facilitating the emergence of new and more appropriate ones. © Copyright IASSS. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/20175 |
ISSN: | 1460-7425 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers |
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