<s>
In	O
animal	O
and	O
plant	O
breeding	O
,	O
truncation	B-General_Concept
selection	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
standard	O
method	O
in	O
selective	O
breeding	O
in	O
selecting	O
animals	O
to	O
be	O
bred	O
for	O
the	O
next	O
generation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
effects	O
of	O
truncation	B-General_Concept
selection	I-General_Concept
for	O
a	O
continuous	O
trait	O
can	O
be	O
modeled	O
by	O
the	O
standard	O
breeder	O
's	O
equation	O
by	O
using	O
heritability	O
and	O
truncated	O
normal	O
distributions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
computer	O
science	O
,	O
truncation	B-General_Concept
selection	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
selection	O
method	O
used	O
in	O
genetic	B-Algorithm
algorithms	I-Algorithm
to	O
select	O
potential	O
candidate	O
solutions	O
for	O
recombination	O
modeled	O
after	O
the	O
breeding	O
method	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
truncation	B-General_Concept
selection	I-General_Concept
the	O
candidate	O
solutions	O
are	O
ordered	O
by	O
fitness	O
,	O
and	O
some	O
proportion	O
,	O
p	O
,	O
(	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
Truncation	B-General_Concept
selection	I-General_Concept
is	O
less	O
sophisticated	O
than	O
many	O
other	O
selection	O
methods	O
,	O
and	O
is	O
not	O
often	O
used	O
in	O
practice	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
used	O
in	O
Muhlenbein	O
's	O
Breeder	O
Genetic	B-Algorithm
Algorithm	I-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
