This could have been the critical step giving the Homo line an evolutionary advantage.

In particular selective environments, these make for major evolutionary advantages.

Animals with the ability to localize sound have a clear evolutionary advantage.

This behavior is thought to have an evolutionary advantage.

What, then, is the evolutionary advantage of poor judgment about risk?

What kind of evolutionary advantage could there be in behaviour like that?

Some of these are not associated with any disease state and may possibly have a beneficial role by giving an evolutionary advantage to their host.

This would give the species an evolutionary advantage over other bats.

Even now you can't really be sure that big muscles are not an evolutionary advantage to a given male human being.

Or did specific regions end up providing our ancestors with an evolutionary advantage?