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Sometimes. Foals are born (almost) able to walk. There are occasions where evolution baked the model into the genes.
by wbillingsley 2y ago
Sometimes. Foals are born (almost) able to walk. There are occasions where evolution baked the model into the genes.
- tomxor 2y agoYeah that example came to my mind too. I suspect there may be trade off undergoing evolutionary selection here, where for some organisms a behaviour is more important from the offset, it's worth encoding more of the behaviour into genes, at what cost I wonder? It's also possible there is some other mechanism going on at an embryonic stage, a kind of pre-training. I suspect some of the division is also defined by how complex the task is, or how sensitive the model is to it's own neurons (kind of like PNN). I don't have a well rounded argument, but my instinct is that encoding or pre-training walking is far easier than seeing. Not to mention basic quadrupedal walking/standing is far easier than bipedal, they can learn the more complex coordinated movements after.