Multi-Behavioral Evolved Substrates Through Neuromodulation and Activation Selection

The paper investigates whether artificial evolution can replicate biological neuromodulation and diverse neuron types in indirectly encoded substrates. Experiments show that neuromodulation alone cannot overcome a 75% performance ceiling on parity tasks, but combining neuromodulation with per‑task activation function selection allows a single evolving genotype to achieve 100% success across five tasks. This demonstrates that both neuromodulation and evolvable computational primitives are necessary for multi‑behavioral open‑ended evolution.

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