Look up selection in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Selection may refer to: Selection (biology), also called natural selection, selection in evolution...
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...
popularised the term "natural selection", contrasting it with artificial selection, which is intentional, whereas natural selection is not. Variation of traits...
League draft, also called the NFL draft or (officially) the Annual Player Selection Meeting, is an annual event which serves as the most common source of...
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...
population genetics, a selection coefficient, usually denoted by the letter s, is a measure of differences in relative fitness. Selection coefficients are central...
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...
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...
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 economics, insurance, and risk management, adverse selection is a market situation where buyers and sellers have different information. The result...
Feature selection is the process of selecting a subset of relevant features (variables, predictors) for use in model construction. Stylometry and DNA...
successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, resulting in certain characteristics...
In evolutionary biology, disruptive selection, also called diversifying selection, describes changes in population genetics in which extreme values for...
A unit of selection is a biological entity within the hierarchy of biological organization (for example, an entity such as: a self-replicating molecule...
their first-round selection (1st overall), 2023 first- and second-round selections (9th and 61st overall), a 2025 second-round selection, and wide receiver...
Staff Selection Commission (SSC) is an organisation under the Government of India to recruit staff for various posts in the various ministries and departments...
Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) is a...
Stabilizing selection (not to be confused with negative or purifying selection) is a type of natural selection in which the population mean stabilizes...
Ecological selection (or environmental selection or survival selection or individual selection or asexual selection) refers to natural selection without...
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 artificial intelligence, a behavior selection algorithm, or action selection algorithm, is an algorithm that selects appropriate behaviors or actions...
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...
or selection pressure is exerted by factors that reduce or increase reproductive success in a portion of a population, driving natural selection. It...
Monde Selection is an annual non-competitive award open to food, drinks, and cosmetics products, created in 1961. It is run by the commercial company...
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