This paper investigates the interaction between cultural evolution and biological evolution in the emergence of phonemic coding in speech. It is observed that our nearest relatives...
Hinton and Nowlan have demonstrated a model of how lifetime plasticity can guide evolution. They show how acquired traits change the shape of the reward landscape in which subseque...
For a mobile robot to move in a known environment and operate successfully, first it needs to robustly determine its initial position and orientation relative to the map, and then ...
Ali R. Vahdat, Naser NourAshrafoddin, Saeed Shiry ...
Often the selfish and strong are believed to be favored by natural selection, even though cooperative interactions thrive at all levels of organization in living systems. Recent em...
Jorge M. Pacheco, Tom Lenaerts, Francisco C. Santo...
The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Public Goods Game are models to study mechanisms leading to the evolution of cooperation. From a simplified rational and egoistic perspective t...