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SIWOTI: Simulated annealing is not not not a genetic algorithm.
I admit these are fuzzy, confusing categories, and you can certainly create borderline examples, but most implementations of simulated annealing use a cooling schedule, which has no natural analog in the genetic algorithm, and many implementations of genetic algorithms use crossover, which has no natural analog in simulated annealing.
I give you Differential evolution Monte Carlo! It slices! It dices! It's a genetic algorithm and a simulated annealing algorithm! But wait -- there's more! You also get an self-tuning Metropolis sampler! (The proof of the correctness of the sampler isn't valid, but the theorem is true; the author gives a correct proof in a subsequent paper.)