Selection is a process in which members of a population reproduce at different rates, due to either natural or human-influenced factors. The result of selection is that some characteristic is found in increasing numbers of organisms within the...

Evolutionary selection pressures act on all living organisms, regardless whether they are prokaryotic or higher eukaryotes. Selection refers to an evolutionary pressure that is the result of a combination of environmental and genetic pressures that...

Neutral selection describes changes in the gene pool of a species that are a result of accumulated random neutral changes that do not convey any particular advantage to a species. Accordingly, neutral selection does not depend upon adaptation, fitness,...

The issue of selection has a long history in education in the UK. When the 1902 Education Act permitted local education authorities to fund secondary schools, it was envisaged that only a minority of 11-year-olds would be selected to attend the new...

In the context of evolution, certain traits or alleles of a species may be subject to selection. Under selection, individuals with advantageous or "adaptive" traits tend to be more successful than their peers reproductively--meaning they contribute...

From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870 - 1925 from Moscow and St Petersburg Royal Academy, until 18 April Sponsored by E.ON It is a salutary and instructive experience to forego the relatively civilised Press View of an exhibition, when only the...

Internet Site Promises to Streamline Product Selection Process At next month's National Association of Home Builders show in Atlanta, Solutions On Site, Lincolnshire, Ill., will unveil its online product selection tool called Select On Site to builders to offer to their home-building...

South Korea announced Wednesday that a 30-year-old expert in artificial intelligence will be the country's first person in space when he flies on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station early next year.The Ministry of Science and Technology selected Ko San, who works...

It's been nearly five years since then-Attorney General John Ashcroft declared the United States had thwarted an al-Qaida plot to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a major city and had arrested a "known terrorist," Jose Padilla.Ashcroft darkly suggested the plot could have caused "mass...