<p>Over the last few years, evolutionary computation research has shown increasing interest in including some aspect of epigenetics. For example:</p>

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<li>A 2008 paper by <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025508002880" rel="nofollow">Tanev and Yuta</a></li>
<li>Work from <a href="http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/pubs/Epigenetics_2015_GECCO_final.pdf" rel="nofollow">Lee Spector's genetic programming group</a></li>
<li>A recent paper by <a href="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-30668-1_9" rel="nofollow">Ricalde and Banzhaf</a></li>
</ul>

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It would really be nice if you could also (at least briefly) address the other question "What are the pros/cons of those approaches?".
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<p>What evolutionary algorithms are there that model or incorporate some notion of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics" rel="nofollow noreferrer">epigenetics</a>? What are the pros/cons of those approaches? Are there vast insufficiencies or wide-open questions about their usefulness?</p>

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What evolutionary algorithms are there that model epigenetics?
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# What evolutionary algorithms are there that model epigenetics?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-08-02)

What evolutionary algorithms are there that model or incorporate some notion of [epigenetics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics)? What are the pros/cons of those approaches? Are there vast insufficiencies or wide-open questions about their usefulness?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2016-08-03. Score: 7

Over the last few years, evolutionary computation research has shown increasing interest in including some aspect of epigenetics. For example:

* A 2008 paper by [Tanev and Yuta](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025508002880)
* Work from [Lee Spector's genetic programming group](http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/pubs/Epigenetics_2015_GECCO_final.pdf)
* A recent paper by [Ricalde and Banzhaf](http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-30668-1_9)

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: It would really be nice if you could also (at least briefly) address the other question "What are the pros/cons of those approaches?".  

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