Evolution, Learning, and Instinct: 100 Years of the Baldwin Effect

Turney, Peter D.; Whitley, Darrell; Anderson, R.

doi:10.1162/evco.1996.4.3.iv

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“…A certain number of works studied the influence of the heritage on the evolution of the populations (Turney et al, 1996). At the beginning of the century, two schools were confronted: The Darwinism is based on the idea that only the predisposition of the individuals to learn is transmitted to the children.…”

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Evolutionary Speech Recognition

Spalanzani¹

2007

Robust Speech Recognition and Understanding

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Section: Lamarkism Versus Darwinismmentioning

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Evolutionary Speech Recognition

Spalanzani¹

2007

Robust Speech Recognition and Understanding

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“…La distinción entre una lectura restringida y amplia corresponde a la distinción entre autores que se sitúan en el marco conceptual neodarwinista estricto (Simpson, 1953;Mayr, 1974;Hinton y Nowlan, 1987;Matsuda, 1987;Maynard-Smith, 1987;Chisholm, 1990;Cairns, 1991;Campbell, 1991;Turney y Whytley, 1996;Hall, 2001;Dennet, 1995Dennet, , 2003 y autores a los que, por su actitud crítica con este marco, podemos considerar como no neodarwinistas (Depew y Weber, 1995;Kull, 2000;Moore, 2002;Deacon, 1997Deacon, , 2003Depew, 2003; Hoffmeyer y Kull, 2003;Oyama, 2003;Weber, 2003). Ello no significa, desde luego, que estos últimos adopten versiones de la evolución de carácter creacionista, vitalista o pseudocientí-fico.…”

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La teoría de la selección orgánica de Baldwin y la escisión entre naturaleza y cultura [Baldwin's organic selection theory and the nature/culture gap[

Narciandi¹

2004

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ResumenEn este trabajo se expone la teoría de la selección orgánica formulada por el psicólogo funcionalista norteamericano James Mark Baldwin en 1896 para explicar el papel desempeñado por el comportamiento en la evolución. Se defiende que esta teoría va indisolublemente unida a una concepción constructivista la actividad psicoló-gica. Desde este punto de vista se resumen las interpretaciones contemporáneas de la selección orgánica y se muestra que ninguna de ellas adopta una concepción de la actividad psicoló-gica como la mencionada. Se defiende que esta escisión entre lo psicológico y lo filogenético es una de las razones para que se mantenga el dualismo entre naturaleza y cultura que la teoría de la selección orgánica pretendía superar. Por último, se considera la Psicología Cultural de nuestros días como una de las versiones actuales de ese dualismo. Palabras claveJames Mark Baldwin. Selección orgánica. Efecto Baldwin. Polémica naturaleza/cultura. Herencia social. Imitación. Reacción circular. Psicología Cultural. AbstractThis paper aims to expound the Organic Selection theory proposed in 1896 by the North American functionalist psychologist James Mark Baldwin in order to explain the evolutive value or learning. This theory is linked to a constructivist conception of the psychological activity. However, none of the current interpretations of organic selection is linked to a constructivist psychology. This gap between psychology and evolution is identified as one of the reasons for the current nature/culture dualism, which Organic Selection aimed to break. Nowadays, Cultural Psyhology is analized as a current version of such a dualism.

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“…From a theoretical perspective, Hinton and Nowlan (1987) showed that learning might ameliorate and speed up arti cial evolution by exploring the space surrounding an individual on the tness landscape. The combination of arti cial evolution and learning has recently attracted much interest (e.g., see Belew & Mitchell, 1996Turney, Whitley, & Anderson, 1996, but most computational approaches are limited to a combination of genetic algorithms and traditional supervised learning algorithms (e.g., see Parisi et al, 1990Ackley & Littman, 1992. In this section we describe a di erent approach based on the assumption that the neural mechanisms underlying ontogenetic learning are themselves developed and shaped by t h e e v olutionary process.…”

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Evolutionary neurocontrollers for autonomous mobile robots

1998

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In this article we describe a methodology for evolving neurocontrollers of autonomous mobile robots without human intervention. The presentation, which spans from technological and methodological issues to several experimental results on evolution of physical mobile robots, covers both previous and recent w ork in the attempt to provide a uni ed picture within which the reader can compare the e ects of systematic variations on the experimental settings. After describing some key principles for building mobile robots and tools suitable for experiments in adaptive robotics, we g i v e a n o verview of di erent approaches to evolutionary robotics and present our methodology. We start reviewing two basic experiments showing that di erent e n vironments can shape very di erent behaviors and neural mechanisms under very similar selection criteria. We then address the issue of incremental evolution in two di erent experiments from the perspective of changing environments and robot morphologies. Finally, w e i n vestigate the possibility o f e v olving plastic neurocontrollers and analyze an evolved neurocontroller that relies on fast and continuously changes synapses characterized by dynamic stability. We conclude by reviewing the implications of this methodology for engineering, biology, cognitive science, and arti cial life, and point at future directions of research.

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Evolution, Learning, and Instinct: 100 Years of the Baldwin Effect

Cited by 84 publications

References 4 publications

Evolutionary Speech Recognition

Evolutionary Speech Recognition

La teoría de la selección orgánica de Baldwin y la escisión entre naturaleza y cultura [Baldwin's organic selection theory and the nature/culture gap[

Evolutionary neurocontrollers for autonomous mobile robots

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