Definition for Selection Intensity

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A measure of how “choosy” breeders are in deciding which individuals are selected; Mathematically the selection intensity is the difference between the mean selection criterion of those individuals selected to be parents the average of selection criterion of all potential parents, expressed in standard deviation unit.