Table of Contents: An information processing perspective on the evolution of skills

Sections		Chapters
Top level Table of Content		Table of Contents for the whole investigation
A summary of the investigation		Interfaces with reality
		Start with skills, go down to action and up to cooperative behaviours
An information processing perspective on the evolution of skills		A brief history of the questions that led to this investigation
		Asking the right question
		Strategy for answering the questions
What are skills, what do they do, and how did they get here?		Skills and action
		Information processing and the evolution of skills
		Learned skills, and the process of learning skills
		The innate skill of experimenting
		The innate skill of imitating
		The innate skill of editing an existing skill or adding a new skill
How do skills work?		Information representation of skills and actions
		Applying a skill to generate action
		Models for the relationships between action and skills
		Limits on information storage for skill and actions
		Models of skill diffusion
		Skills and the division of labour
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Diagrams		Within-individual information conservation, assuming no learning
		Trait distribution across a population, with beneficial and optimal variants
		Within-individual skill-information conservation, assuming only innate skills, no learning
		Within-individual skill-information growth, adding learned skills from experimentation and imitation
		Within-individual skill-information growth, adding skills learned by imitating parents and peers
		The interaction between skills and the world
		Cladogram
		2 cooperating individuals
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Diagram 10x		Action like video
Diagram 11x		Action like video