Evolving Learnable Neutral Networks Under Changing Environments with Various Rates of Inheritance of Acquired Characters: Comparison Between Darwinian and Lamarckian Evolution

Adaptation under Changing Environments with Various Rates of Inheritance of Acquired Characters: Comparison between Darwinian and Lamarckian Evolution

Phenotype Plasticity in Genetic Programming: A Comparison of Darwinian and Lamarckian Inheritance Schemes

We consider a form of phenotype plasticity in Genetic Programming (GP). This takes the form of a set of real-valued numerical parameters associated with each individual, an optimisation (or learning) algorithm for adapting their values, and an inheritance strategy for propagating learned parameter values to oospring. We show that plastic GP has signiicant beneets including faster evolution and ...

Adaptation toward Changing Environments: Why Darwinian in Nature?

The processes of adaptation in a multi-agent system consist of two complementary phases: 1) learning, occurring within each agent's individual lifetime, and 2) evolution, occurring over successive generations of the population. In this paper, we observe the dynamics of such adaptive processes in a simple abstract model, where each neural network is regarded as an individual capable of learning,...

Dismantling Lamarckism

This paper addresses the widespread tendency to describe socio-economic evolution as Lamarckian. The difference between Lamarckian and Darwinian replication is clarified. It is shown that a phenotype-genotype distinction must first be established before we can identify Lamarckian transmission. To qualify as Lamarckian inheritance, acquired properties at the phenotypic level must be encoded in a...

Why we need a generalized Darwinism, and why generalized Darwinism is not enough

Complex evolving systems, consisting of populations of varied and replicating entities are found in both nature and human society. There exists no alternative to the core Darwinian principles of variation, selection and inheritance to explain the evolution of such systems. Neither the actual existence of human intentionality nor the hypothetical possibility of Lamarckian acquired character inhe...