Social Learning and Cultural Evolution in Artificial Life

Abstract

We describe the questions and discussions raised at the First Workshop on Social Learning and Cultural Evolution held at the Artificial Life Conference 2016 in Cancun, Mexico in July 2016. The purpose of the workshop was to assemble artificial life researchers interested in social learning and cultural evolution into one group so that we could focus on recent work and interesting open questions. Our discussion related to both the mechanisms of social learning and cultural evolution and the consequences and influence of social learning and cultural evolution on living systems. We present the contributions of our workshop presenters and conclude with a discussion of the more important open questions in this area.

Citation

(2018). Social Learning and Cultural Evolution in Artificial Life. Artificial Life, https://doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_a_00250

• Acceptance Date: Dec 20, 2017
• Publication Date: Feb 9, 2018
• Journal: Artificial Life
• Print ISSN: 1064-5462
• Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_a_00250
• Keywords: Social learning, cultural evolution, collective behavior, life history evolution, mimicry
• Publisher URL: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ARTL_a_00250?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed