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  1. Negative selection (immunology), Negative selection (natural selection), Negative selection (politics), Negative selection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Negative selection)

noun:  In natural selection, negative selection or purifying selection is the selective removal of alleles that are deleterious.
noun:  a political process that occurs especially in rigid hierarchies, most notably dictatorships, but also to lesser degrees in such settings as corporations or electoral politics.


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