Cumulative cultural evolution: Can we ever learn more?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4095 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 738-749

  Vogt, Paul ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; GAMES; ITERATED LEARNING MODEL; LANGUAGE EVOLUTION;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EID: 33749659536     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11840541_61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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