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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Sélection naturelle is the fourth studio album by French rapper Nessbeal. It was released on November 21, 2011 by 7th Magnitude and Sony Music France...
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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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Sélection de Grains Nobles (SGN) is French for "selection of noble berries" and refers to wines made from grapes affected by noble rot. SGN wines are...
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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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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...
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established in 1969 as the Annales de Génétique et de Sélection Animales. It was renamed to Genetics, Selection, Evolution in 1983 and to its current name in...
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chemistry, a selection rule, or transition rule, formally constrains the possible transitions of a system from one quantum state to another. Selection rules...
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In economics, insurance, and risk management, adverse selection is a market situation where buyers and sellers have different information. The result...
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Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection),...
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NFL draft (redirect from NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting)
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...
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A unit of selection is a biological entity within the hierarchy of biological organization (for example, an entity such as: a self-replicating molecule...
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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...
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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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Ecological selection (or environmental selection or survival selection or individual selection or asexual selection) refers to natural selection without...
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Personnel selection is the methodical process used to hire (or, less commonly, promote) individuals. Although the term can apply to all aspects of the...
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In immunology, clonal selection theory explains the functions of cells of the immune system (lymphocytes) in response to specific antigens invading the...
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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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Best Selection may refer to: Best Selection (Aimer album), 2017 Best Selection 2010, an album by TVXQ, 2010 Best Selection, an album by Japan, 1994 Best...
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Action selection is a way of characterizing the most basic problem of intelligent systems: what to do next. In artificial intelligence and computational...
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CRAN Hamon, Julie (November 2013). Optimisation combinatoire pour la sélection de variables en régression en grande dimension: Application en génétique...
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Look up unnatural selection in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Unnatural Selection may refer to: Unnatural Selection (Buffy novel), a 1999 novel based...
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population genetics, a selection coefficient, usually denoted by the letter s, is a measure of differences in relative fitness. Selection coefficients are central...
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Emotional selection refers to: Emotional selection (dreaming), the role of emotion in the adaptation of mental schemas through dreams Emotional selection (evolution)...
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Stabilizing selection (not to be confused with negative or purifying selection) is a type of natural selection in which the population mean stabilizes...
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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...
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In evolutionary biology, disruptive selection, also called diversifying selection, describes changes in population genetics in which extreme values for...
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Fecundity selection, also known as fertility selection, is the fitness advantage resulting from selection on traits that increases the number of offspring...
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analysis, a branch of mathematics, a selection theorem is a theorem that guarantees the existence of a single-valued selection function from a given set-valued...
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