GA uses evolutionary analogies and metaphors, but that is about as much the similarity between large scale algorithms and models to explore gene and evolution data goes. So really little or no similarity between the two except for use of common words.
To put it differently that academic program is as related to GA as, imaging algorithms to explore FMRI data is related to training artificial neural networks.
However the specific paper that you point to now, and changing GA to follow the nature's model is indeed an interesting idea.
GA uses evolutionary analogies and metaphors, but that is about as much the similarity between large scale algorithms and models to explore gene and evolution data goes. So really little or no similarity between the two except for use of common words.
To put it differently that academic program is as related to GA as, imaging algorithms to explore FMRI data is related to training artificial neural networks.
However the specific paper that you point to now, and changing GA to follow the nature's model is indeed an interesting idea.