PROCREATE: Generate new generation of agents

In MoLE: Modeling Language Evolution

Description

Generate new generation of agents if (to be) parent generation is old enough.

Usage

PROCREATE(speakerID, hearerID)

Arguments

speakerID	Pointer to first parent
hearerID	Pointer to second parent

Details

New generation is mix of vocabularies of parents (if world$crossover is T), with emptied usage histories. Agents procreate after number of utterances specified by world$procreationAge. Meanings of words that have not been used by their parents are modified slightly.

Value

Set of new agents

Author(s)

Sander Lestrade

See Also

TALK

Examples

FOUND()
population[[1]]$age=population[[2]]$age=world$procreationAge*world$deathAge+1
PROCREATE(1,2)

MoLE documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:02 p.m.