History

2017 - 2020

During Winter 2017, Qiqi Duan, as a Ph.D. candidate at SUSTech, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China (a joint program with HIT, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China), chatted with Hao Tong, as a Master candidate also in SUSTech, regarding the necessarity of a high-quality open-source library for evolutionary algorithms (EAs) and swarm optimizers (SOs). Clearly, it is a huge work to cover as many as well-established and newly-emerging versions and variants of EAs and SOs. Here I express my kindly thanks to Dr. Hao Tong, although he did not take part in this open-source library finally.

2021

The digit number 7 was added because pypop has been registered by [other](http://pypop.org/) in [PyPI](https://pypi.org/). Its icon butterfly is used to respect to the great book (butterflies in its cover) of Fisher ([“(one of) the greatest of Darwin’s successors”](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-010-1122-x)): [The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-genetical-theory-of-natural-selection-9780198504405?cc=hk&lang=en&), which directly inspired [Prof. Holland](https://cacm.acm.org/research/adaptive-computation/)’s [proposal](https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/3809/chapter-abstract/125036/An-Interview-with-John-Holland) of [Genetic Algorithms (GA)](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/321127.321128).