The Plausibility of Evolving an Adaptive Toolbox
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2015-12-03
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en
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To explain the mechanics of decision making strategies, Gigerenzer, Todd, and the
ABC research group (1999) put forth a model they called the adaptive toolbox. The
tools in this adaptive toolbox are heuristics. Each of those heuristics is suited for specific
situations and have been adapted to the environment by evolution.
This project explores by means of evolutionary algorithms the plausibility of the
toolbox being evolvable in two separate conditions: a fixed sized population and a
variable sized population that can die out. In neither condition the adaptive toolbox
was found to be plausibly evolvable.
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen