🦧 Imaginary Orangutans and the Baldwin Effect

Most people are familiar with the notion of natural selection, a process by which genetic change takes place within a population over many generations based on fitness. The driving principle of natural selection is that good genes will outlive and outproduce bad genes eventually resulting in a well adapted population. In this blog I'll attempt to address the effect individual learning has on evolution, a phenomenon known as the Baldwin Effect, and elaborate on a simulation model for observing this effect.