For an extended bibliography, see the FAQ posting for comp.ai.genetic.
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast/archive/clife/FAQ/www/

Overviews:

   L. B. Booker, D.E. Goldberg and J.H. Holland, "Classifier Systems and
   Genetic Algorithms", Artificial Intelligence 40(1-3):235-282,
   September 1989. 

   David E. Goldberg, "Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and
   Machine Learning", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1989, 412 pages.
   ISBN 0-201-15767-5.

   Davis, Lawrence (editor), "Handbook of Genetic Algorithms", Van
   Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1991, ISBN 0-442-00173-8.

   D.B. Fogel, "An Introduction to Simulated Evolutionary Optimization",
   IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 5(1):3-14, 1994.
      [Survey of evolutionary computation, including genetic
       algorithms, evolution strategies and evolutionary programming.]

   M. Srinivas and Lalit M. Patnaik, "Genetic Algorithms: A Survey",
   IEEE Computer 27(6):17-26, July 1994.

   Jose L. Ribeiro Filho, Philip C. Treleaven, and Cesare Alippi,
   "Genetic-Algorithm Programming Environments", IEEE Computer
   27(6):28-43, July 1994.

See also [4-15] Artificial Life and Cellular Automata.