The phrase "a quirk of evolution" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing surprising or unusual traits or behaviors that have developed in animals, plants, or other organisms due to evolution. For example: "The ability of the giraffe to reach high foliage is a quirk of evolution that has enabled it to survive in its environment."
These, however, are a quirk of evolution.
An Organ to Spare It is considered a quirk of evolution that humans have two kidneys when they need only one to filter waste and remove excess fluid from the body.
In a quirk of evolution and genetics, Argentine ants are overwhelming native California ants while forming what scientists believe may be the biggest ant colony in the world, stretching more than 600 miles from San Diego to north of San Francisco.
When biologists first encountered filial cannibalism decades ago, they thought it was a rare "social pathology --a quirk of evolution without any benefits.
This is because a god-shaped hole seems to exist in our species' neuropsychology, thanks to a quirk of our evolution.
Given that aging contracts neural networks and makes cognition more repetitive, it would be a humane quirk of evolution if we were reassured by that repetition.
A strange quirk of evolution fated this perfectly shaped torpedo to spawn high in the hills, so that after an epic journey to sea and then to the Arctic feeding grounds, it returns – weighing anything up to 40lb (the bigger fish have gone from Britain) – to breed in streams often no more than a foot across.
Village homes are a quirk of Hong Kong's colonial history.
It is a quirk of timing that he should face the scrutiny of a judiciary that so studiously ignored his predecessors.Actually, not quite a quirk.
The problem was eventually traced to a combination of a quirk of DNA chemistry and another quirk in the machines used to do the synthesis.
It began to look as if a quirk of his kit might be responsible, and the search turned to what that quirk might be.
