Using a simple simulation model of evolution and learning this paper provides some evolutionary arguments on why Lamarckianlike inheritance - direct transfer of lifetime learning r...
Ingo Paenke, Bernhard Sendhoff, Jon Rowe, Chrisant...
It is well known that certain environmental conditions, such as a spatially structured population, can promote the evolution of cooperative traits. However, such conditions are usu...
Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Wat...
A long standing debate within ecology is to what extent ecosystem complexity and stability are related. Landmark theoretical studies claimed that the more complex an ecosystem, the...
James Dyke, Jamie McDonald-Gibson, Ezequiel A. Di ...
Abstract. This paper investigates the processes used by an evolved, embodied simulated agent to adapt to large disruptive changes in its sensor morphology, whilst maintaining perfo...
Peter Fine, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Eduardo Izquierd...
Abstract. Artificial selection of microbial ecosystems for their collective function has been shown to be effective in laboratory experiments. In previous work, we used evolutionar...