Evolutionary Theory Makes Predictions About Cognition Beyond Rational Optimization

Fitness and Overfitness: Implicit Regularization in Evolutionary Dynamics

Comparison of evolutionary rescue via biological and cultural evolution

A stochastic eco-evolutionary model is developed to compare rescue probabilities through biological and cultural evolution and demonstrates that transmission bias alters the demographic consequences of cultural evolution and highlights the importance of transmission processes in evolutionary rescue theory.

Flawed in Nature, Perfect through Evolution

It is shown that a swarm of AI/ML models subjected to deliberate mutations of their model coefficients away from optimality can reliably and sustainably improve performance in changing environments by acting as a statistical hedge against non-stationarity.

Evolution of cooperation with Q-learning: how much information do we need?

Mechanistic analyses show that a moderate neighborhood size enables individuals to strike an optimal balance between information sufficiency and decision-making tractability, which allows them to detect reciprocal opportunities while avoiding the deterioration of decision quality due to information overload.

The Evolution of Theories of Human Evolution: The Pluralistic Integrative Structure of Positive Feedback Theory

Sterelny argues that the driving force of human evolution lies in positive feedback generated by interactions among ecological, informational, and reproductive cooperation. Humans shared information necessary for survival and reproduction and constructed cooperative niches; dual inheritance, niche construction, phenoty...

Weighting Bayesian information in human judgment under uncertainty: a hierarchical theory of cognitive biases

Cognitive biases are typically viewed as departures from normative Bayesian reasoning. Instead, we propose that such biases emerge from a hierarchical cognitive architecture that adaptively regulates the weighting of prior beliefs and incoming evidence when cognitive resources are limited and uncertainty exists. While...