In natural selection, negative selection or purifying selection is the selective removal of alleles that are deleterious. This can result in stabilising...

popularised the term "natural selection", contrasting it with artificial selection, which is intentional, whereas natural selection is not. Variation of traits...

Selection bias is the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups, or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved...

J.League U-22 Selection (Jリーグ・アンダー22選抜) was a Japanese football team which played in J3 League from 2014 season to 2015 season. The idea of the club was...

Kelly, Shapiro and Walz as "top contenders" while people close to the selection process stated that Beshear and Buttigieg were not top contenders despite...

Sexual selection is a mechanism of evolution in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and...

chemistry, a selection rule, or transition rule, formally constrains the possible transitions of a system from one quantum state to another. Selection rules...

In population genetics, directional selection is a type of natural selection in which one extreme phenotype is favored over both the other extreme and...

Feature selection is the process of selecting a subset of relevant features (variables, predictors) for use in model construction. Stylometry and DNA...

In computer science, selection sort is an in-place comparison sorting algorithm. It has an O(n2) time complexity, which makes it inefficient on large...

In ecology, r/K selection theory relates to the selection of combinations of traits in an organism that trade off between quantity and quality of offspring...

Fecundity selection, also known as fertility selection, is the fitness advantage resulting from selection on traits that increases the number of offspring...

2 Skinnee J's (alternatively spelled Two Skinnee J's or Too Skinnee J's) is an American hip hop band from Brooklyn, New York, whose music has been categorized...

Selection coefficient, usually denoted by the letter s, is a measure used in population genetics to quantify the relative fitness of a genotype compared...

Kin selection is a process whereby natural selection favours a trait due to its positive effects on the reproductive success of an organism's relatives...

special forces and slated for the Eastern Command. After a stringent selection and training process that spanned more than a year, on 1 February 1996...

In economics, insurance, and risk management, adverse selection is a market situation where asymmetric information results in a party taking advantage...

Sex selection is the attempt to control the sex of the offspring to achieve a desired sex. It can be accomplished in several ways, both pre- and post-implantation...

Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular...

first-round selection (1st overall), 2023 first- and second-round selections (9th and 61st overall), a 2025 second-round selection, and wide receiver D. J. Moore...

Stabilizing selection (not to be confused with negative or purifying selection) is a type of natural selection in which the population mean stabilizes...

Fitness proportionate selection, also known as roulette wheel selection, is a genetic operator used in genetic algorithms for selecting potentially useful...

Group selection is a proposed mechanism of evolution in which natural selection acts at the level of the group, instead of at the level of the individual...

In evolutionary biology, disruptive selection, also called diversifying selection, describes changes in population genetics in which extreme values for...

Selection (German: Selektion) was the process of designating inmates either for murder or forced labor at a Nazi concentration camp. The arrival selection...

Fisherian runaway or runaway selection is a sexual selection mechanism proposed by the mathematical biologist Ronald Fisher in the early 20th century...

or selection pressure is exerted by factors that reduce or increase reproductive success in a portion of a population, driving natural selection. It...

remain unbiased. The main approaches for stepwise regression are: Forward selection, which involves starting with no variables in the model, testing the addition...

In statistics, self-selection bias arises in any situation in which individuals select themselves into a group, causing a biased sample with nonprobability...

The Wason selection task (or four-card problem) is a logic puzzle devised by Peter Cathcart Wason in 1966. It is one of the most famous tasks in the study...