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Abstract According to the Darwinian theory of evolution, adaptation results from spon- taneously generated genetic variation and natural selection. Mathematical models of this process can be seen as describing a dynamics on an algebraic structure which in turn is dened by the processes which generate genetic variation (muta- tion and recombination). The theory of complex adaptive system has shown that the properties of the algebraic structure induced by mutation and recombination are more important for understanding the dynamics than the dierential equations themselves. This has motivated new directions in the mathematical analysis of evolutionary models, which the algebraic properties induced by mutation and re- combination are at the center of interest [95]. We summarize some new results on the algebraic properties of crossover, recombination and mutation spaces. It is shown that the algebraic structures induced by recombination can be represented by a map from the pairs of types to the power set of the types. |