@inproceedings{2fa18fb6050e4623bae10f967ec67480,
title = "The Effect of Social Learning on Individual Learning and Evolution",
abstract = "We consider the effects of social learning on the individual learning and genetic evolution of a colony of artificial agents capable of genetic, individual and social modes of adaptation. We confirm that there is strong selection pressure to acquire traits of individual learning and social learning when these are adaptive traits. We show that selection pressure for learning of either kind can supress selection pressure for reproduction or greater fitness. We show that social learning differs from individual learning in that it can support a second evolutionary system that is decoupled from the biological evolutionary system. This decoupling leads to an emergent interaction where immature agents are more likely to engage in learning activities than mature agents.",
author = "Chris Marriott and Jobran Chebib",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Artificial Life 14 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2014. All rights reserved.; 14th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2014 ; Conference date: 30-07-2014 Through 02-08-2014",
year = "2014",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1162/978-0-262-32621-6-ch118",
language = "English",
volume = "26",
series = "Artificial Life 14 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2014",
publisher = "MIT Press",
pages = "736--743",
editor = "Hiroki Sayama and John Rieffel and Sebastian Risi and Rene Doursat and Hod Lipson",
booktitle = "Artificial Life 14",
address = "United States",
}