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crossover techniques are implemented in ESDE. If one point crossover is selected a
cut point is randomly generated. The section of the string to the left of the cut point
from parent 1 is combined with section to the right of the cut point from parent 2 to
create a new string. Two point crossover generates two cut points. The sections to
the left and the right of the cut points from parent 1 are combined with the section
between the cut points from parent 2. Uniform crossover randomly selects half the
bits from parent 1 and half from parent 2 and combines them to create a child
genotype. This approach is less likely to preserve particular qualities which have
been identified in the parents, it \