Red Queen hypothesis

English Alternative forms en Red-Queen hypothesis Red Queen's hypothesis Etymology An allusion to a remark by the Red Queen (Through the Looking-Glass) Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass: Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. The hypothesis was advanced in 1973 by American biologist Leigh Van Valen, who called it the Red Queen's hypothesis. Proper noun Red Queen hypothesis 1 en evolutionary theory An evolutionary hypothesis which proposes that organisms must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate not merely to gain reproductive advantage, but also simply to survive while pitted against other evolving organisms in an ever-changing environment. en 2000 Edward M. Barrows Animal Behavior Desk Reference CRC Press 2nd https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MFlc5iN6ynAC&pg=PA358&dq=%22Red+Queen+hypothesis%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKppzNidqFAxWKq5UCHVOTCv8Q6AF6BAhEEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Red%20Queen%20hypothesis%22&f=false 358 Stenseth and Maynard Smith (1984) reformulated this hypothesis by including the idea of evolutionary lag and dismissing Van Valen's zero-sum assumption. They contrast the Red-Queen hypothesis with the stationary hypothesis, q.v. Hoffman and Kitchell (1984 in Lewin 1985a, 400) offer some support for the Red-Queen hypothesis. en 2008 Keith Clay; et al Chapter 7: Red Queen Communities Richard S. Ostfeld; Felicia Keesing; Valerie T. Eviner Infectious Disease Ecology Princeton University Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=rX0iH0tAH28C&pg=PA145&dq=%22Red+Queen+hypothesis%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKppzNidqFAxWKq5UCHVOTCv8Q6AF6BAgbEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Red%20Queen%20hypothesis%22&f=false 145 We extend the Red Queen hypothesis, a mechanism proposed to maintain genetic diversity at the population level, to explain diversity at the community level. en 2018 w:Tim Flannery Europe: A Natural History 219 The Red Queen hypothesis defines evolution as a kind of arms race, in which species must constantly evolve and adapt merely to survive. Translations evolutionary hypothesis French: fr hypothèse de la Reine rouge f German: de Red-Queen-Hypothese f Italian: it Polish: pl hipoteza Czerwonej Królowej f See also en treadmill Further reading en Lewis Carroll