The phrase "an adaptive advantage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing evolutionary biology, ecology, or any situation where a particular trait or behavior provides a benefit for survival or success.
Example: "The ability to camouflage provides an adaptive advantage for certain species, allowing them to evade predators more effectively."
Alternatives: "a survival benefit" or "an evolutionary edge".
Associations with rhizosphere bacteria can confer an adaptive advantage to plants.
A higher likelihood of anxious behavior may have an adaptive advantage for less physically fit creatures.
Instead, his contrary streak leads him always to shun the obvious and see an adaptive advantage when things go wrong.
The thrifty-genotype hypothesis holds that there was, once upon a time, an adaptive advantage to being able to get fat.
In recent decades, scientists have offered several accounts of how the capacity for tears may have given early hominids an adaptive advantage.
Greater body size confers an adaptive advantage: there is less surface area relative to volume and, therefore, less opportunity for heat to dissipate to the outside.
Another theory suggests that ticklishness promotes protection of vulnerable areas — on the stomach, under the armpits, the soles of the feet — resulting in an adaptive advantage during hand-to-hand combat.
Taken together, these results strongly suggest that gtsB is a target of selection, that the synonymous mutations confer an adaptive advantage specifically on glucose and that the fitness gains do not stem from a loss of gene function.
In addition, carriers of this derangement in purine nucleotide catabolism may have an adaptive advantage related to clinical outcome in heart disease.
However, it is important to understand that the elaboration of an eye does not necessarily lead to an adaptive advantage for that specific animal.
"There's an adaptive advantage to having a brain that can say that the world works differently in different situations, but then you need to be able to figure out which area is relevant right now," Norman said.
