QUINTESSENTIALS QE · Knowledge & reasoning

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QEF-O-SELECT

Selection Processes

Changes in a population through differential persistence or reproduction of variants.

CandidateRoot family
Super rootTime and Change
Root familySelection Processes
Parent familyNot assigned
Principle familyNot assigned

Includes

  1. Composition changes through unequal survival or persistence.
  2. Composition changes through unequal reproduction even when persistence is equal.

Excludes

  1. Change caused only by adding equal numbers of every variant.
  2. A claim that selection necessarily improves human-defined outcomes.

Child families

Direct proposed-role assignments

Complete family record
Family id
QEF-O-SELECT
Label
Selection Processes
Aliases
None recorded
Stack
Ontological
Level
root_family
Parent ref
QEF-O-TIME
Definition
Changes in a population through differential persistence or reproduction of variants.
Includes
  1. Composition changes through unequal survival or persistence.
  2. Composition changes through unequal reproduction even when persistence is equal.
Excludes
  1. Change caused only by adding equal numbers of every variant.
  2. A claim that selection necessarily improves human-defined outcomes.
Status
candidate
Provenance refs
None recorded