How Producer Biases Can Favor the Evolution of Communication: An Analysis of EvolutionaryDynamics  

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Mirolli, Marco ; Parisi, Domenico

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Adaptive Behavior vol. 16 no. 1 (Feb. 2008), page 27–52.
Topik: evolution of communication; producer bias; receiver bias; evolutionary dynamics
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Like any other biological trait, communication can be studied from at least four perspectives: mechanistic, ontogenetic, functional, and phylogenetic. In this article, we focus on the following phylogenetic question: how can communication emerge, given that both signal-producing and signal-responding abilities seem to be adaptively neutral until the complementary ability is present in the population? We explore the problem of co-evolution of speakers and hearers with artificial life simulations: a population of artificial neural networks evolving a food call system. The core of the article is devoted to a careful analysis of the complex evolutionary dynamics demonstrated by our simple simulation. Our analyses reveal an important factor, which might solve the phylogenetic problem: the spontaneous production of good (meaningful) signals by speakers because of the need for organisms to categorize their experience in adaptively relevant ways. We discuss our results with respect both to previous simulative work and to the biological literature on the evolution of communication.

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