Survival value refers to the adaptive advantage or benefit that a behavior or trait provides for an organism's survival and reproductive success.
Related terms
Natural Selection: The process by which individuals with advantageous traits are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing those traits onto future generations.
Adaptation: A trait or characteristic that has evolved through natural selection to better suit an organism's environment.
Fitness: A measure of an individual's reproductive success in passing on its genes to future generations.