I want to make sure we're all on the same page, before we start digging through source code. The way simulated evolution works is you make a population—maybe totally random, maybe not—and call it generation 0. You then run some fitness function on the members of the population. Fitness may be defined in terms of some known absolute or as a relative value between members of the population. The fittest members of the population are then taken to form a subset of parents. Many algorithms take two members, but the sky's the limit and your species could well require six individuals for reproduction. That's what we're after—reproduction.
The individuals of the population are non-destructively recombined to form children. ...
