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‘Owing to this struggle for life, variations, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if they be in any degree profitable to the individuals of a species, in their infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to their physical conditions of life, will tend to the preservation of such individuals, and will generally be inherited by the offspring. The offspring, also, will thus have a better chance of surviving, for, of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection’. (Darwin, 1859 [127], p. 115)
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- Evolutionary Algorithm
- Evolutionary Computation
- Algorithm Differential Evolution
- Evolutionary Computing
- Natural Computing
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Brabazon, A., O’Neill, M., McGarraghy, S. (2015). Introduction to Evolutionary Computing. In: Natural Computing Algorithms. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43631-8_2
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