英语词汇“Red Queen”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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.

Origin

1970s. 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.’.

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. Origin 1970s. 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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