Red Queen hypothesis
- 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）。
词源
late 20th cent.: named from a passage in Lewis Carroll's Alice 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'.