Look up selection in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Selection may refer to: Selection (biology), also called natural selection, selection in evolution...
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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...
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popularised the term "natural selection", contrasting it with artificial selection, which is intentional, whereas natural selection is not. Variation of traits...
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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...
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In natural selection, negative selection or purifying selection is the selective removal of alleles that are deleterious. This can result in stabilising...
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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...
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Kelly, Shapiro, and Walz as "top contenders" while people close to the selection process stated that Beshear and Buttigieg were not top contenders despite...
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In population genetics, directional selection is a type of natural selection in which one extreme phenotype is favored over both the other extreme and...
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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...
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Selection (German: Selektion) was the process of designating inmates either for murder or forced labor at a Nazi concentration camp. The arrival selection...
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