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Title: Not a good overview text of the subject.
Review: I used this book as the primary text for a graduate course on evolutionary computation. I was looking for a book that provided a good introduction to genetic algorithms and provided a wide cross-section of related algorithms and applications. At the time, this was the only book of its type on the market (other than Goldberg's book). The first couple of chapters (What is a GA, Why Does a GA Work) were pretty good, but then the strong focus of the remainder of the book on numerical optimization resulted in a loss of interest on the part of my students. Since then, I have had to re-organize the class to provide topics such as genetic programming, evolving neural systems, co-evolution, and artificial life -- none of which are covered adequately (if at all) in this book.
