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Evans noted that the research leaves room for the possibility that nonadaptive processes, such as relaxed selection or random mutations, could also have contributed to the observed variability.

From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024

Perhaps the most familiar explanation is that male ornaments become expressed in females for nonadaptive, incidental reasons explained by developmental or genetic correlation between the sexes.

From Scientific American • Jan. 5, 2012

Karasu points out that nonadaptive behavior, or the inability to cope with freeway stress, could lead to heart attacks or strokes for some.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would be erroneous to conclude from this, however, that this amorphous, Basinlike social structure was nonadaptive to the Plains.

From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Murphy, Robert F.