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While evolutionary computation mainly treats the population as a whole, an equivalent approach is to separate from the current population those individuals that will have children. These are placed into a mating pool. That is, fitness selection is performed separately before genetic operations. Children are created from parents chosen only from the mating pool.

References

Foundations of Genetic Programming.