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Sexual and Asexual Paradigms in Evolution : The Implications for Genetic Algorithms

In this paper, we consider the role of sexual and asexual reproduction in evolution and relate this to the issue of optimization with genetic algorithms. In particular, we examine the results and analyses provided by [1] that imply that sexual reproduction has a general advantage over asexual reproduction. We generalize the class of models beyond those considered in [1] while still maintaining their analytical tractability. With this, we are then able to provide a more qualified description of when and why sexual-recombination can exceed mutation-based methods, and vice versa.