**5. Conclusions and future work**

In this chapter we have provided a detailed tutorial on quantitative genetics and some high level design methods to define phenotypic traits needed by quantitative genetics. Using these methods we performed various experiments changing the selection and breeding operator in GP to analyze different evolutionary behaviors of the problem. Evolutionary forces like exploration and exploitation were quantified using quantitative genetics tool set and some interesting correlation with other forces like bloat, diversity, convergence and fitness were made. Many observations and correlations made were generalized across different benchmark GP problems.

In future we would like to perform more experiments to further understand the balance of bloat, selection and breeding operators, as well as designing new operators for resolving issues in a given problem domain.
