A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
The process or act of selecting.
Something selected.
A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
A musical piece.
A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Wp
A list of items on which user operations will take place. Wp
A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. Wp
The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. Wp