Red Queen

Summary

• The Red Queen, "Red Queen's race" or "Red Queen Effect" is an evolutionary theory explaining the advantage of sex and the constant evolutionary arms race between competing species. By making every individual an experiment when mixing mother's and father's genes, sex may allow a species to adapt quickly just to hold onto the ecological niche that it already has in the ecosystem.

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Related Topics

• Arms race
• Competing species
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