The phrase "an evolutionary benefit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing advantages or advantages that arise from evolutionary processes in biology or other contexts.
Example: "The ability to camouflage provides an evolutionary benefit, allowing species to evade predators more effectively."
Alternatives: "an adaptive advantage" or "a survival benefit".
In some species, animals may swarm so that the entire group enjoys an evolutionary benefit.
"It's not really known why mast years occur, it's thought that boom and bust cycles of acorn production do have an evolutionary benefit for oak trees.
Dr. Frank said the study suggested that there might have been an evolutionary benefit to cooperation — and, more important, to the ability to determine who could be trusted.
A drumbeat, on the other hand, could allow a large group to be bound together socially, which may have led to greater altruism and more positive affiliative feelings," – an evolutionary benefit.
Moreover, the researchers contend, in a long-ago world, women's more social response to stress may have conferred an evolutionary benefit, promoting survival and reducing the risk to females and their offspring posed by predators, natural disasters and other Pleistocene Epoch threats.
There's an evolutionary benefit to fitting in, the researchers say.
Aside from hipster credibility, the researchers don't believe there is any evolutionary benefit for the beards.
There was also a serious underlying idea: whether an association between fear and coagulation has "an important evolutionary benefit".
When both sexes seek outside mates but return to bring up offspring in a social group (as whales do), ageing females also derive an increasing evolutionary benefit from offering help.
That means that the soldiers get a bigger evolutionary benefit from the success of their sisters than from that of their brothers.
If it appears in a man's genetic code it will code for same-sex attraction, but so long as this happens rarely the allele still has a net evolutionary benefit.
