Look up selection in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Selection may refer to: Selection (biology), also called natural selection, selection in evolution...

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

The Selection is a young adult novel by Kiera Cass first published on April 14, 2012, by HarperCollins. It is the first in a five-book series, followed...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

Action selection is a way of characterizing the most basic problem of intelligent systems: what to do next. In artificial intelligence and computational...

The NFL draft, officially known as the Annual Player Selection Meeting, is an annual event which serves as the most common source of player recruitment...

In immunology, clonal selection theory explains the functions of cells of the immune system (lymphocytes) in response to specific antigens invading the...

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...

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

On October 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew (a Republican) was forced to resign following a controversy over his personal taxes. Under the terms of...

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

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

successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, resulting in certain characteristics...

Material selection is a step in the process of designing any physical object. In the context of product design, the main goal of material selection is to...

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...

Selection cutting, also known as selection system, is the silvicultural practice of harvesting trees in a way that moves a forest stand towards an uneven-aged...

In computer science, a selection algorithm is an algorithm for finding the k {\displaystyle k} th smallest value in a collection of ordered values, such...

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

Services Selection Board may refer to: Inter Services Selection Board (Bangladesh), military organisation in Bangladesh Inter Services Selection Board (Pakistan)...

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

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

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

A unit of selection is a biological entity within the hierarchy of biological organization (for example, an entity such as: a self-replicating molecule...

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...