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.