(evolutionary theory) 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.

A process in modelbuilding, in which bulky and/or repetitious elements of the prototype being modeled are omitted, in order to capture the important details in a smaller-than-scale model.

The tendency to interpret information in a way that supports what one already believes.

(physics) Any of several general rules concerning the transitions between the states of a quantum mechanical system; they derive from the symmetry properties of the states and of their interactions

Selecting oneself for something. / Selecting something for oneself. / (countable) An item selected by oneself.

present participle of self-select

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of self-select

simple past tense and past participle of self-select

To make a choice for oneself. / (linguistics, intransitive) To take one's turn in a conversation by electing to speak.

(evolutionary theory, rare, sometimes humorous or derogatory) The selection of certain genes caused by the actions of humans, especially the intentional intervention in the breeding of plants or animals in order to preserve selected genetic traits; eugenics, selective breeding or culling.