The problem of adaptive individual choice in cultural evolution |
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Authors: | Catherine Driscoll |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 8103, Raleigh, NC 27695-8103, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper tries to explain how individuals manage adaptive individual choice (i.e., the decision to acquire a fitter than
average behavior or idea rapidly and tractably) in cultural evolution, despite the fact that acquiring fitness information
is very difficult. I argue that the means of solving this problem suggested in the cultural evolution literature largely are
various types of decision rules employing representations of fitness correlated properties or states of affairs. I argue that
the problem of adaptive individual choice is best solved where some of these learning rule representations are socially transmitted
and some are biologically transmitted.
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Keywords: | Cultural evolution Adaptive decision making Social learning |
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