Answers.Body: <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>
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Body: <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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ThreadText: # 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?
  
  **Tags:** reference-request, genetic-algorithms, evolutionary-algorithms, genetic-programming, evolutionary-computation
  
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  ### 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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