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selection definition

The term selection is used to refer to the act of choosing, selecting a thing, object or individual from a set of similar elements or individuals. Selection can occur in different areas of life and the term is normally used in scientific-biological fields to refer to the natural selection process that implies that some species are naturally selected to survive in the specific environment in which they arise.

The notion of selection can always imply a more or less fair decision since the selection process of a person, an organism or an object can be based on objective or subjective criteria depending on each case. If we speak of selection as the biological phenomenon mentioned before, then we must take into account a myriad of elements that occur naturally and that have to do with the need of nature to select the most suitable organisms to survive in certain environments. At the same time, the selection process will always imply that some of the possible candidates to be selected will not pass the required criteria and therefore will be out of the box.

However, when we refer to any selection process carried out by human beings (such as the selection of professionals or employees for a position, the selection of officials among politicians, the selection of students for an educational institution), there may be both objective and subjective criteria. In the case of the latter, they are usually present since the human being always makes decisions in a subjective way despite the fact that certain more or less general requirements weigh in the selection process. It can thus be argued that, unlike natural selection processes, those carried out by man will be to a greater or lesser extent artificial selection processes.

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