[PDF][PDF] Modeling the evolution of gene-culture divergence

J Chebib, C Marriott - … 2016, the Fifteenth International Conference on …, 2016 - direct.mit.edu
We present a model for evolving agents using both genetic and cultural inheritance
mechanisms. Within each agent our model maintains two distinct information stores we call …

Divergent cumulative cultural evolution

C Marriott, J Chebib - Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference …, 2016 - direct.mit.edu
Divergent cumulative cultural evolution occurs when the cultural evolutionary trajectory
diverges from the biological evolutionary trajectory. We consider the conditions under which …

Reproductive division of labor in a colony of artificial ants

P Bae, C Marriott - Artificial Life Conference Proceedings, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
We simulate an ant colony in which an ant's genetics can determine behavioral,
morphological and physiological differences between workers and queens. We show that …

[PDF][PDF] The Dual Inheritance Model

C Marriott, J Chebib - climbinggiants.com
Dawkins (1976) applied the principles of evolution to the domain of human culture
introducing the field of memetics (see also Dennett (1995)). He suggests that the realm of …