- Traditional GA (Search)
- Interactive Selection
- Evolutionary "Ecosystem" Simulation
- Darwinian Evolution: Heredity, Variation, Selection
- population
- genotype vs. phenotype
- fitness function
- crossover
- mutation
- While computer simulations of evolutionary processes date back to the 1950s, much of what we think of as genetic algorithms (also known as “GAs”) today was developed by John Holland, a professor at the University of Michigan, whose book Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems pioneered GA research.
- GA History on Wikipedia
- Nature of Code Chapter 9
- Galanter, Philip. "The Problem with Evolutionary Art Is…" Paper presented at EvoCOMNET’10: The 7th European Event on the Application of Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunication Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems, April 7-9, 2010.
- Sims, Karl. "Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics." Paper presented at SIGGRAPH '91: The 18th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Las Vegas, NV, July 28-August 2, 1991.
- Sims, Karl. "Evolving Virtual Creatures." Paper presented at SIGGRAPH '94: The 21st Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Orlando, FL, July 24-29, 1994.
- Wasps, Viruses and New Modes of Evolution
- 2 People in 1
- The Sports Gene