selective advantage

English

Noun

selective advantage (plural selective advantages)

(biology) The characteristic of an organism that enables it to survive and reproduce better than other organisms in a population in a given environment; the basis for evolution by natural selection.
What is the selective advantage of height?
- 1998, Jerome Bixby, The Man From Earth (film):
  Better to see predators in tall grass my dear.

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