{"id":20327,"date":"2010-06-08T08:10:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T08:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/evolution-too-much-reliance-on-memory-is-bad\/"},"modified":"2010-06-08T08:10:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T08:10:26","slug":"evolution-too-much-reliance-on-memory-is-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/evolution-too-much-reliance-on-memory-is-bad.php","title":{"rendered":"Evolution: Too much reliance on memory is bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why good memory may be bad for you<\/a>: The counterintuitive finding that too good a memory makes foragers inefficient reveals a glimpse of the forces that govern the evolution of intelligence.<\/p>

From the article:<\/p>

It's easy to imagine that a good memory would confer significant benefits to a foraging animal.<\/span><\/p>

But it's not quite so straightforward, say Denis Boyer at Universite Paul Sabatier in France and Peter Walsh at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico.<\/p>

These guys have created one of the first computer models to take into account a creature's ability to remember the locations of past foraging successes and revisit them.<\/p>

Their model shows that in a changing environment, revisiting old haunts on a regular basis is not the best strategy for a forager.<\/p>

It turns out instead that a better approach strategy is to inject an element of randomness into a regular foraging pattern. This improves foraging efficiency by a factor of up to 7, say Boyer and Walsh.<\/p>

Clearly, creatures of habit are not as successful as their opportunistic cousins.<\/p><\/blockquote>

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