However, the simplicity of the models created by the cultural evolutionists also had many implications which could be interesting to consider within open-ended fitness landscape. One such instance is the landmark paper by Henrich (2004). He proposed that increase in population size affects the up rise and the speed of cumulative cultural evolution. When each agent of a population loses the cultural trait of the previous generation by some error distribution, increase in population size can downfall the effect of this error, and in return, cumulative culture will occur.
Whether population size will increase the speed of cumulative culture within open-ended fitness landscape is opened for a debate. However, considering that there might be a correlation between increase in population size (ref.) and the speed of technological development (Moore?) in recent century within the real world, population size might act as a driver in open-ended fitness landscape. This paper aims to address this issue using agent-based simulation.