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单词 Red Queen hypothesis
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Definition of Red Queen hypothesis in English:

Red Queen hypothesis

noun
Biology
  • The hypothesis that organisms are constantly struggling to keep up with one another in an evolutionary race between predator and prey species.

    〔生〕红女王假设(生物界捕食类和被捕食类在进化竞争中此消彼长、不停斗争的假设)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Evolutionary biologists call this phenomenon, in which an organism evolves just to stay in place, the Red Queen hypothesis.
    • Taking an experimental approach to paleoecology, we evaluated the prey portion of Van Valen's Red Queen hypothesis by retrieving diapausing eggs from lake sediments for laboratory tests of evolutionary responses.
    • A popular theory is the Red Queen hypothesis, named after the Lewis Carroll character who tells Alice that she must keep running simply to stay in the same place.

Origin

Late 20th century: named from a passage in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, in which the Red Queen tells Alice that ‘it takes all the running you can do to stay in the same place’.

Definition of Red Queen hypothesis in US English:

Red Queen hypothesis

noun
Biology
  • The hypothesis that organisms are constantly struggling to keep up with one another in an evolutionary race between predator and prey species.

    〔生〕红女王假设(生物界捕食类和被捕食类在进化竞争中此消彼长、不停斗争的假设)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Evolutionary biologists call this phenomenon, in which an organism evolves just to stay in place, the Red Queen hypothesis.
    • A popular theory is the Red Queen hypothesis, named after the Lewis Carroll character who tells Alice that she must keep running simply to stay in the same place.
    • Taking an experimental approach to paleoecology, we evaluated the prey portion of Van Valen's Red Queen hypothesis by retrieving diapausing eggs from lake sediments for laboratory tests of evolutionary responses.

Origin

1970s: named from a passage in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, in which the Red Queen tells Alice that ‘it takes all the running you can do to stay in the same place’.

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