Cultural Transmission Between and Within Generations

Alberto Acerbi () and Domenico Parisi ()
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Alberto Acerbi: http://laral.istc.cnr.it/acerbi/
Domenico Parisi: https://www.istc.cnr.it/people/domenico-parisi

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2006, vol. 9, issue 1, 9

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.

Keywords: Artificial Life; Cultural Transmission; Cultural Evolution; Horizontal Cultural Transmission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-01-31
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