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ECAL
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
On the Adaptive Disadvantage of Lamarckianism in Rapidly Changing Environments
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...
ECAL
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Individual Selection for Cooperative Group Formation
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...
ECAL
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Increasing Complexity Can Increase Stability in a Self-Regulating Ecosystem
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 ...
ECAL
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Adapting to Your Body
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...
ECAL
2007
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Artificial Ecosystem Selection for Evolutionary Optimisation
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...
Hywel T. P. Williams, Timothy M. Lenton