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Yes, although it is much more active in robotics. York still has quite active research into evolutionary algorithms and genetic programming (https://www.york.ac.uk/physics-engineering-technology/resear...).

It's been used to do things like find design parameters (https://pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/evolving-desi...) and attempt to evolve robots to fit an environment (https://www.york.ac.uk/robot-lab/are/)