Evolution of Complex Niche-Constructing Behaviors and Ecological Inheritance of Adaptive Structures in a Physically Grounded Environment.

ABSTRACT: Niche construction is a process in which organisms modify the selection pressures on themselves and others through their ecological activities, and ecological inheritance is the consequence of niche construction inherited through generations. However, it is still unclear how such mutual interactions between robots or embodied agents and their physical environments can yield complex and divergent evolutionary processes or an open-ended evolution. Our purpose is to clarify what kind of complex and various niche-constructing behaviors evolve in a physically grounded environment under various conditions of ecological inheritance of constructed structures and spatial relationships. We focus on a predator-prey relationship, and constructed an evolutionary model in which a prey creature has to av

SUBMITTER: Chiba N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7805702 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature