Theories of how humans came to be so ecologically dominant increasingly centre on the
adaptive abilities of human culture and its capacity for cumulative change and high-fidelity …

It is widely believed that human culture originated in the appearance of Oldowan stone-tool
production (circa 2.9 Mya) and a primitive but effective ability to copy detailed know-how …

It has been argued that teaching promotes the accurate transmission of cultural traits and
eventually leads to cumulative cultural evolution (CCE). However, previous studies have …

The origin of human cumulative culture is commonly envisioned as the appearance (some
2.0–2.5 million years ago) of a capacity to faithfully copy the know-how that underpins …

The rapid growth of cultural evolutionary science, its expansion into numerous fields, its use
of diverse methods, and several conceptual problems have outpaced corollary …

Tokyo Type 1 open-ended evolution (OEE) is a category of OEE that includes systems
exhibiting the ongoing generation of adaptive novelty and ongoing growth in complexity. It …

In this paper, we survey the use of additional biologically inspired mechanisms, principles,
and concepts in the area of evolutionary reinforcement learning (ERL). While recent years …

Organizational closure and Open-endedness are both central, widely explored concepts
within Artificial Life, although still requiring further theoretical development. In this work, we …

There is an increasing level of interest in open-endedness in the recent literature of Artificial
Life and Artificial Intelligence. We previously proposed the cardinality leap of possibility …

Open-endedness is currently one of the most actively investigated topics in Artificial Life
(Stanley, 2019; Packard et al., 2019; Stepney, 2021; Borg et al., 2023; Stepney and …