And the per-formance the population improves

It is worth emphasizing that individuals in the culture model are not trying to solve problems. They are only following the simple

about the existence of a problem or how to solve it. Yet through reciprocal social influ-ence each individual betters its “fitness” (the term is less appropriate here than in discus-sion of evolutionary algorithms), and the per-formance of the population improves. We would not say that the adaptive culture algo-rithm is an especially powerful way to solve problems, but it is a good introduction to some social algorithms that are.