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I don't think Grover ("the other GA") helps us here. https://qbnets.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/grovers-algorithm-fo...

Yes there has been some very interesting recent work. In particular, how evolvability emerges and is harnessed in evolutionary computation. A few papers come to mind:

1. Evolvability is Inevitable: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

2. Extinction Events can Accelerate Evolution (2015): http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

3. Evolvability Search: Directly selecting for evolvability in order to study and produce it (2016): http://www.evolvingai.org/mengistu-lehman-clune-2016-evolvab...