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selective advantage (複数形 selective advantages)

1. (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.