Editing Mating pool (section)

=== Fitness proportionate selection ===
In the case of fitness proportionate selection, random individuals are selected to enter the pool. However, the ones with a higher level of fitness are more likely to be picked and therefore have a greater chance of passing on their features to the next generation.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

One of the techniques used in this type of parental selection is the roulette wheel selection. This approach divides a hypothetical circular wheel into different slots, the size of which is equal to the fitness values of each potential candidate. Afterwards, the wheel is rotated and a fixed point determines which individual gets picked. The greater the fitness value of an individual, the higher the probability of being chosen as a parent by the random spin of the wheel. Alternatively, stochastic universal sampling can be implemented. This selection method is also based on the rotation of a spinning wheel. However, in this case there is more than one fixed point and as a result all of the mating pool members will be selected simultaneously.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Gandhi|first=Sonali|date=4 September 2020|title=A Comparative Analysis of Selection Scheme|url=http://www.ijsce.org/wp-content/uploads/papers/v2i4/D0915072412.pdf|journal=International Journal of Soft Computing and Engineering |volume=2|pages=131–134}}</ref>