After years of work with genetic algorithms (GA) that used just these sorts of exchanges to search their function space it is fascinating to see that nature was

After years of work with genetic algorithms (GA) that used just these sorts of exchanges to search their function space it is fascinating to see that nature was there first. The GA literature is full of many useful mechanisms for advancing search. Perhaps GAs will be to evolutionary biology what mathematics is to physics - a suitable model to hint at promising experimental research.