The "Red Queen Hypothesis" describes the continuous evolutionary competition among species, which was put forward by Leigh Van Wallen, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago in the United States, to explain the law of the risk of continuous extinction of species he observed, that is, the extinction possibility of a taxon has nothing to do with its existence time.

The "Red Queen Hypothesis" cannot break Darwin's theory of evolution. In the past, Darwin's theory believed that species evolved to adapt to the environment. "Red Queen Hypothesis" means that species should not only adapt to the environment, but also adapt to other species.

In the same environment, whether a species can finally win depends on whether it is better than other species. The red queen hypothesis is combined with species selection theory, which complements each other and can explain the origin of genetic structure with evolutionary function.

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The red queen hypothesis is one-sided, because it emphasizes the biological factors in the living environment of species and ignores the physical environmental factors.

In the "Red Queen's World", the process of coevolution is like having your own life. Even if the physical environment stops changing, the evolutionary process will not stop. Real biological evolution is determined by both physical environment and biological environment.

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