adaptive advantage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofadaptiveandadvantage
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adaptive
adjective
uk/əˈdæp.tɪv/us/əˈdæp.tɪv/
having an ability to change to suit ...
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advantage
noun
uk/ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/us/ədˈvæn.t̬ɪdʒ/
a condition giving a greater chance ...
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(Definition ofadaptiveandadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But what would confer anadaptiveadvantageon a syntactic faculty that just generated meaningless and imperceptible syntactic structures?
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Hence, we argue, the presence of the tree-piping termites is highly unlikely to confer a relativeadaptiveadvantage.
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Pickering also calls attention to some of the complexities involved in evaluatingadaptiveadvantage.
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The behavior of a recovering alcoholic better demonstrates the enormousadaptiveadvantageoffered by inhibition.
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Is there noadaptiveadvantageof small seeds relative to large seeds in the phase of establishment?
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The need to take these considerations into account makes it that much harder to pin down and evaluate claims ofadaptiveadvantage.
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Distributed codes minimize metabolic costs and therefore provide anadaptiveadvantageto an organism.
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Its inherent ambiguity may offer anadaptiveadvantage, as resolution requires adult presence and scrutiny of other behavioral, physical, and contextual factors.
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The ability to detect and respond to such odours would thus have a strongadaptiveadvantage.
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Any source of information that offersadaptiveadvantageprovides a candidate for representational refinement.
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Instead, their purpose is to offer the maximaladaptiveadvantageto an organism.
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A pattern of pain and basic emotion expressions in response to injury provide anadaptiveadvantageover a pain expression alone.
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This increase entailed metabolic and life-history costs, and the tradeoffs would not have occurred without anadaptiveadvantage.
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How might this sensibility regarding autonomy have evolved and/or conveyedadaptiveadvantage?
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It is not obvious that correspondence to meaningful entities per se (or the convenience of this correspondence for modelers) confers anyadaptiveadvantage.
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If this is the case, no appreciable size benefit was associated with the delay, and therefore no evidence of anadaptiveadvantagewas detected.
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Hurford proposes incorporating these two explanations to arrive at an evolutionary model for theadaptiveadvantageof cognitive immaturity.
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Although these considerations ofadaptiveadvantageare neither complete nor definitive, they suggest that an evolutionary account of autonomy need not be incompatible with ontogentic and social-psychological analyses.
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We note that distributed codes are the most efficient method for representing information, and that this efficiency minimizes metabolic costs, providingadaptiveadvantageto an organism.
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