The phrase "adaptive purposes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the reasons or goals behind making adjustments or changes to something in order to better fit a situation or environment.
Example: "The software was designed with adaptive purposes in mind, allowing it to adjust to user preferences and behaviors."
Alternatives: "flexible objectives" or "adjustment goals".
Because evolution favored an extended childhood in spite of the added costs of care, protection from predation, additional food acquisition, and more, researchers have argued that the long period of dependency must have served some adaptive purposes (King et al. 2010; Geary and Bjorklund 2000).
One of the best known examples of the use of telomere proximity for adaptive purposes are the bloodstream expression sites (BESs) of the African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei.
The systematic change in RT entropy across the different conditions suggests that the pattern of RT variation is not random [9], [10] and is consistent with the proposal that cognitive variability may exist for adaptive purposes [40].
In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, amyloid-based prions are tightly regulated and utilized for various adaptive purposes (Garcia and Jarosz, 2014; Newby and Lindquist, 2013).
Given the organisation of people (and early hominids) into social groups larger than pairs, 56 such spread in emotions probably served evolutionarily adaptive purposes.
In this vein, early motor reactivity during perception of emotional bodies would reflect (non-simulative) emotionally appropriate motor reactions serving adaptive purposes (e.g., fight/flight reactions), rather than motor resonance processing necessary for visual perception (Tamietto et al. 2009; de Gelder et al. 2010; LeDoux 2012).
Thus researchers, they warned, should refrain from assuming that every feature exists for some adaptive purpose.
Using a more natural intervention that captures the adaptive purpose of reconsolidation allows a safe way to prevent the return of fear".
She thinks it's possible that it served some adaptive purpose in our evolution, but that actually gender is a very bad indicator of behaviour because there is so much variability within each sex.
Many of these behaviours, according to one objection, are more plausibly viewed as cultural constructs or as evolutionary by-products, without any direct adaptive purpose of their own.
And it engages people's attention more comprehensively than almost anything else: scans show that when people listen to music, virtually every area of their brain becomes more active.Yet it serves no obvious adaptive purpose.
