The coevolution of learning schedules and teaching enhances cumulative knowledge and drives a teacher-innovator syndrome

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Natural selection shapes how individuals learn and acquire knowledge from their environment. Under the right conditions, this can lead to the evolution of learning schedules—how individuals allocate resources to acquire knowledge throughout their lifespan—that promote the accumulation of knowledge across generations (“cumulative knowledge” or “cumulative culture”). In spite of having been observed across multiple...

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• Biological Evolution
• Computer Simulation
• Environment
• Exploratory Behavior
• Learning
• Models, Biological
• Selection, Genetic
• Social Behavior

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Literature Corpus work

801f0156-74fd-57bb-8db7-ddda7e91f9c3

DOI

10.1101/2024.06.28.601211