Abstract
Misperception is a common cause of error for individuals and organisations. Conventional wisdom suggests that its effects are detrimental to the misperceiver or its society as a whole. However, in some circumstances misperception can provide a benefit either by diversifying the behaviour of a population or by discouraging behaviour that has a negative impact on the population. In such cases adaptive pressures will drive the population to evolve a probability of misperception that is optimal for that environment. We explore this hypothesis using an evolutionary artificial life simulation. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
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Brumley, L., Korb, K. B., & Kopp, C. (2007). An evolutionary benefit from misperception in foraging behaviour. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4828 LNAI, pp. 96–106). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76931-6_9
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