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Maybe it's just me, but I found the paper a total fail. Impatient readers should skip to sections 5.1 and 5.2 right away. Basically, the authors are trying to "evolve" simple functions by combining and recombining typed terms. First they "evolve" boolean-xor, sum-of-list and product-of-list, tweaking the "evolution" parameters until they get the right answer. Then they attempt to "evolve" increment-all-elements-of-list-by-one and fail.
Results like this are why I left computer science and started programming for money.
Which is what you would have had to do anyway if you'd stayed in computer science. So, good call.