Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation

Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation.

We propose that the cognitive mechanisms that enable the transmission of cultural knowledge by communication between individuals constitute a system of 'natural pedagogy' in humans, and represent an evolutionary adaptation along the hominin lineage. We discuss three kinds of arguments that support this hypothesis. First, natural pedagogy is likely to be human-specific: while social learning and...

Natural pedagogy.

We propose that human communication is specifically adapted to allow the transmission of generic knowledge between individuals. Such a communication system, which we call 'natural pedagogy', enables fast and efficient social learning of cognitively opaque cultural knowledge that would be hard to acquire relying on purely observational learning mechanisms alone. We argue that human infants are p...

Evolutionary Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems

Mobile Adaptation with Multiple Representation Approach as Educational Pedagogy

This paper illustrates the concept of Multiple Representation (MR) approach and its application in mobile adaptation. The paper first reviews several techniques for web page level content adaptation. Most of these techniques have been used in existing applications but they are very generic and lack the guidelines for deployment of educational pedagogy needed in learning environments. The Multip...

Genome Length as an Evolutionary Self-adaptation

There is increasing interest in evolutionary algorithms that have variable-length genomes and/or location independent genes. However, our understanding of such algorithms both theoretically and empirically is much less well developed than the more traditional xed-length, xed-location ones. Recent studies with VIV (VIrtual Virus), a variable length, GA-based computational model of viral evolutio...