Generic Genetic Evolution

My recent work with ANNs as well as some research and reading that I've been doing have gotten me on to genotype vs phenotype. It appears, much like in coding, having many layers of abstraction to work are advantageous for evolutionary systems.

But genotype actually needs to know almost nothing about phenotype. It should therefore be possible to build a solid genetic library for evolution independent of any phenotic system.

Resources

• http://www.cs.vu.nl/~gusz/ecbook/Eiben-Smith-Intro2EC-Ch2.pdf
• http://www.obitko.com/tutorials/genetic-algorithms/crossover-mutation.php