evolutionary traits
Selected survival features
Evolutionary traits are inherited characteristics shaped by natural selection over generations.
They may be physical features like camouflage or opposable thumbs, or behavioral patterns like migration or mating displays.
The term appears in biology discussions about adaptation: Birds developed hollow bones as an evolutionary trait for flight.
Traits persist when they improve survival or reproduction.
- camouflageConcealment through visual blending
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- phenotypeObservable characteristics of organism
- mutationPermanent DNA alteration
bill · scales · mimicry · survival instinct · fight or flight · heritability · courtship display · mating ritual · genetic drift · polymorphism · speciation · altruism · pecking order · shell · opposable thumbs · vestigial · metabolism · breeding