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• Red Queen — The Red Queen s Hypothesis, Red Queen, Red Queen s race or Red Queen Effect is an evolutionary hypothesis. The term is taken from the Red Queen s race in Lewis Carroll s Through the Looking Glass . The Red Queen said, It takes all the running you …   Wikipedia

• Red Queen (disambiguation) — Red Queen is an evolutionary hypothesis to the advantage of sex at the level of individuals, and the constant evolutionary arms race between competing species.Red Queen may also refer to:* Red Queen (Through the Looking Glass), a character in… …   Wikipedia

• Red Queen (Through the Looking Glass) — The Red Queen is a fictional character who appears in Lewis Carroll s fantasy novella, Through the Looking Glass . With a motif of Through the Looking Glass being representations of the game of chess, the Red Queen could be viewed as an… …   Wikipedia

• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature — The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature[1] (del inglés: La Reina Roja: el sexo y la evolución de la naturaleza humana) es un libro de divulgación científica escrito por Matt Ridley. En esta obra se explora la psicología evolutiva de… …   Wikipedia Español

• Court Jester Hypothesis — The Court Jester hypothesis is a term coined by University of California, Berkeley professor Anthony D. Barnosky in 1999, that describes the antithesis of the Red Queen Hypothesis in evolutionary theory. It refers to the idea that abiotic forces… …   Wikipedia

• Vicar of Bray (scientific hypothesis) — The Vicar of Bray is the name given to a hypothesis attempting to explain why sexual reproduction might be favoured over asexual reproduction, in which sexual populations are able to outcompete asexual populations because they evolve more rapidly …   Wikipedia

• Evolution of sexual reproduction — The evolution of sexual reproduction is currently described by several competing scientific hypotheses. All sexually reproducing organisms derive from a common ancestor which was a single celled eukaryotic species[1]. Many protists reproduce… …   Wikipedia

• Major Histocompatibility Complex and Sexual Selection — A pathogen is any agent that causes disease. The body has two defense mechanisms for dealing with pathogenic microorganisms and other harmful substances: the inflammatory reaction and the development of an acquired immunity. Acquired immunity… …   Wikipedia

• W. D. Hamilton — William Donald Hamilton, F.R.S. (1 August 1936 mdash; 7 March 2000) was a British evolutionary biologist, considered one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century. [ [http://www.edge.org/3rd culture/hamilton/hamilton index.html… …   Wikipedia

• Nils Christian Stenseth — (born 29 July 1949 in Fredrikstad, Norway) is a biologist with a focus on ecology and evolution. He is the leader of the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES, Senter for fremragende forskning) at the University of Oslo. He is… …   Wikipedia