Keep in mind

• Start population has a lot of diversity

• “Invest” search time in areas that have proven good in the past  Loss of diversity over evolutionary time

• Premature convergence: quick loss of diversity poses high risk of getting stuck in local optima

• Evolvability:

  • Fitness landscape should not be too rugged
  • Heredity of traits
  • Small genetic changes should be mapped to small phenotype changes

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