Understanding genetic programming
Since their introduction, electronic calculators have been used to speed up calculations, but not only to build models that explain and reproduce the biological characteristics of nature and its evolution. If the electronic reproduction of the brain’s behavior and its way of learning gave rise to neural networks, the simulation of biological evolution gave rise to what is now called evolutionary computation. The first studies on computer evolutionary systems were carried out in the 1950s and 1960s, with the aim of identifying mechanisms of biological evolution that could be useful as optimization tools for engineering problems. The term evolutionary strategies was introduced by Rechenberg in 1965 to indicate the method he used to optimize some parameters of aerodynamic structures. Later, the field of evolutionary strategies caught the interest of other researchers and became a research area with specialized congresses.
