Beginners should look at The Hitch-Hiker's guide to Evolutionary Computation for an introduction to all aspects of EC.

The US Navy's Centre for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence maintains a genetic algorithms archive.

Go to the IlliGAL Home Page to find out about some current basic and applied genetic algorithm research.

The Dept. of Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University has a repository of many GA-related papers available for download.

Information on genetic programming and various conferences can be found at Genetic Programming Conferences Inc.

This comprehensive genetic programming bibliography has an easy-to-use interface and a good search engine.

The genetic programming mailing list archive is held here.