Science
* Selection (biology), also called natural selection, selection in evolution ** Sex selection, in genetics ** Mate selection, in mating ** Sexual selection in humans, in human sexuality ** Human mating strategies, in human sexuality * Social selection, within social groups * Selection (linguistics), the ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments * Selective school, Selection in schools, the admission of students on the basis of selective criteria * Selection effect, a distortion of data arising from the way that the data are collected * A selection, or choice function, a function that selects an element from a setReligion
* Divine election, Divine selection, selection by God * Papal selection, selection by clergyComputing
* Selection (user interface) ** X Window selection * Selection (genetic algorithm) * Selection (relational algebra) * Selection-based search, a search engine system in which the user invokes a search query using only the mouse * Selection algorithm, an algorithm that finds the ''k''th smallest number in a listOther uses
* Preselection (or selection) of candidates in British elections * Selection (Australian history), an area of crown land acquired under legislation * Selected (album), ''Selected'' (album), the compilation album by Recoil * Selection (album), ''Selection'' (album), by 54•40 * Selektion, selection of prisoners for execution at a Nazi concentration camp * ''The Selection'', a novel by Kiera Cass * A store brand used by Metro Inc.See also
* Adverse selection * Discrimination * Election {{disambiguation