In biology, the process by which populations of organisms pass on advantageous traits from generation to generation is known as evolution.

It has been observed that males have a higher aerobic scope than females, presumably because of sexual selection for a trait advantageous in prolonged combat.

Major genes almost always have multiple effects (pleiotropism), which can simultaneously convey separate advantageous traits and disadvantageous traits upon the same organism.

The dominant view in the literature states that female dominance is an advantageous trait given the high costs of reproduction and the scarcity of resources available.

Choosing advantageous traits reduces the number of picks available, while choosing disadvantages increases them, but players cannot choose more than ten picks' worth of disadvantages.

Meanwhile, selection does not guarantee that advantageous traits or alleles will become prevalent within a population.

Tudge robustly defends evolutionary psychology's central premise that human behavior is shaped by natural selection, observing that traits once advantageous may be maladaptive today.

By contrast, Reich argues that hybrids could play an important and positive role in speciation, introducing advantageous traits into a gene pool - including ours.