Definition of Selection

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Definition of Selection
	Selection The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Related Definitions: Act, As, Being, By, Choice, Chosen, Collection, Is, Of, Or, Preference, Selected, Selecting, Selection, State, That, The, Which

Selection Quotations

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
Richard Dawkins

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
Thurgood Marshall

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
Irving Babbitt

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
M. H. Abrams

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
David Rockefeller

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
Daniel Dennett

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?
Steven Pinker

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Selection Translations

selection in German is Auswahl {f}, Auslese {f}
selection in Italian is selezione, eletta
selection in Latin is lectio
selection in Swedish is urval, val

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