“Evolution Strategy: Nature’s Way of Optimization”, 1989 (; similar):
Biological Evolution has done development work on animated matter for more than 3 billion years. The method used in this process is the equivalent of an astute optimization procedure which is provable by the theory of Evolution Strategy. The result is that biological structures and processes have been optimized in the grand experiment of evolution from which a logical conclusion can be drawn:
• Evolution has optimized biological processes. • Evolution in itself is a biological process. • Ergo: Evolution must have optimized itself.
The evolution of evolution is a fact that is not only important for the momentary contribution of an individual to the survival of the species. In the course of several generations better genetic strategies are being selected and improved as well, better in the sense that they promote a faster environmental accommodation. The strategy of evolution thus becomes an optimization procedure worthy of imitation by engineers. Elements of Evolution Strategy are such mechanisms as gene mutation, chromosome mutation, recombination, selection, annidation, dominance, recession, etc. The theory of Evolution Strategy led to the discovery of the so-called “Evolution Window”. The meaning of this term is that changes (mutational jumps) lead to evolutionary progress only when they lie within a narrowly confined and calculable step-width band. Mutation which fall outside the evolution window are ineffective.