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The phrase "adaptive significance" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in discussions related to biology, evolution, or ecology to refer to the importance of a trait or behavior in terms of its contribution to the survival and reproductive success of an organism.
Example: "The adaptive significance of the giraffe's long neck is often attributed to its ability to reach high foliage and avoid competition for food."
Alternatives: "evolutionary importance" or "functional significance".
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Such shifts of reproductive capability would appear to have adaptive significance to organisms that exhibit it.
Evolutionary explanations can be based on the phylogeny (evolutionary history) of the trait or on its proposed adaptive significance.
Habituation represents a progressive loss of behavioral responsivity to a stimulus as its lack of adaptive significance is recognized.
Peter Brown, an expert in human evolution at the University of New England in New South Wales, added: "Eventually we may even come to understand the genetic basis and adaptive significance of their most distinctive feature, a humungous nose".
Finally, it impacts how we understand the adaptive significance of audition.
The adaptive significance of pollen size dimorphism in distylous plants is left to be explored.
Despite more than three decades of research, the adaptive significance of play behaviour remains unknown.
Also, the methods for analyzing the functional (adaptive) significance of coherent/incoherent personality structures are shown.
We examined variation in mound size and composition to help determine their adaptive significance.
"So some dolphins are more pink than others and the adaptive significance of the color remains unclear".
There is some evidence that gender differences in attachment patterns of adaptive significance begin to emerge in middle childhood.
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