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Selection may refer to:

Science

• Selection (biology), also called natural selection, selection in evolution
  • Sex selection, in genetics
  • Mate selection, in mating
  • Sexual selection in humans, in human sexuality
  • Human mating strategies, in human sexuality
• Social selection, within social groups
• Selection (linguistics), the ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments
• Selection in schools, the admission of students on the basis of selective criteria
• Selection effect, a distortion of data arising from the way that the data are collected
• A selection, or choice function, a function that selects an element from a set

Religion

• Divine selection, selection by God
• Papal selection, selection by clergy

Computing

• Selection (user interface)
  • X Window selection
• Selection (genetic algorithm)
• Selection (relational algebra)
• Selection-based search, a search engine system in which the user invokes a search query using only the mouse
• Selection algorithm, an algorithm that finds the kth smallest number in a list

Other uses

• Preselection (or selection) of candidates in British elections
• Selection (Australian history), an area of crown land acquired under legislation
• Selected (album), the compilation album by Recoil
• Selection (album), by 54•40
• Selection (Nazi concentration camps)
• The Selection, a novel by Kiera Cass
• A store brand used by Metro Inc.

See also

• Adverse selection
• Discrimination
• Election
• Select (disambiguation)

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