I have always thought that GA have won lot of acceptance for its name. Don't get me wrong, they are great to solve some problems, and even though they don't assure us to converge into a global minimum on our space, they are more robust than other methods to search in the whole space.

We can see a relation with the humans, I am pretty sure that we are not a global minimum in evolutionary terms, but... certainly we are at least close to be a local minimum.