单词 | Red Queen |
释义 | Red Queen/ˌrɛd ˈkwiːn/Biology noun Attributive and in the possessive. The hypothesis that in order to survive, a species must evolve sufficiently rapidly to counter evolutionary changes in ecologically competing species (e.g. predator or prey); especially in Red Queen's hypothesis. Origin1970s. From the name of the Red Queen, a character in Lewis Carroll's novel Through the Looking-glass, who asserts (ch. ii) that ‘it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.’. |
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