We describe the questions and discussions raised at the First Workshop on Social Learning
and Cultural Evolution held at theArtificial Life Conference 2016 in Cancún, Mexico in July …

Adaptation of agents in artificial life scenarios is especially effective when agents may
evolve, ie, inherit traits from their parents, and learn by interacting with the environment. The …

Following a recent re-evaluation of evidence from an archaeological site in SE Australia, the
possibility of a 120 thousand years (ka) old human presence in the Fifth Continent has been …

Divergent cumulative cultural evolution occurs when the cultural evolutionary trajectory
diverges from the biological evolutionary trajectory. We consider the conditions under which …

We implement an agent-based simulation of the response threshold model of reproductive
division of labor. Ants in our simulation must perform two tasks in their environment: forage …

In suggesting that the rules that govern the evolution of cumulative culture are observed in
all modern societies, gene-culture coevolution theory implies that the biases that affect the …

Sexual reproductive behavior has a necessary social coordination component as willing and
capable partners must both be in the right place at the right time. It has recently been …

The influence of culture on the behavior of organizations is already unques-tionable today.
However, researchers are still trying to identify the relation-ships between culture and …

The questions to be addressed here are all aimed at beginning to assess the emergence
and utility of social behaviour and social learning in artificial evolutionary systems. Like any …

Os cantos dos Passeriformes são vocalizações longas e complexas produzidas pelos
machos na temporada de acasalamento que possuem duas funções principais: atrair a …