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Richard Baldwin

Table DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000 Geographic area: Baldwin City city, Kansas

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 6.6 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 6.6 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 7.8 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416 12.2 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

WHAT CONTRACT ? by Jason Baldwin

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Development and the Baldwin Effect

Baldwin's classic hypothesis states that behavioral plasticity can speed evolution by (a) smoothing the fitness landscape and (b) indirect genetic assimilation of acquired characteristics. This latter phase demands a strong correlation between genotype and phenotype space. But the natural world shows signs of this correlation at only a very coarse level, since the intervening developmental proc...

Myths and Legends of the Baldwin Effect

This position paper argues that the Baldwin effectis widely misunderstood by the evolutionarycomputation community. The misunderstandingsappear to fall into two general categories. Firstly,it is commonly believed that the Baldwin effect isconcerned with the synergy that results whenthere is an evolving population of learning indi-viduals. This is only half of the sto...