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"etymology_text": "An allusion to a remark by the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass: \"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.\" The hypothesis was advanced in 1973 by American biologist Leigh Van Valen, who called it the Red Queen's hypothesis.",
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"text": "2000, Edward M. Barrows, Animal Behavior Desk Reference, CRC Press, 2nd Edition, page 358,\nStenseth and Maynard Smith (1984) reformulated this hypothesis by including the idea of evolutionary lag and dismissing Van Valen's zero-sum assumption. They contrast the Red-Queen hypothesis with the stationary hypothesis, q.v. Hoffman and Kitchell (1984 in Lewin 1985a, 400) offer some support for the Red-Queen hypothesis."
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"text": "2008, Keith Clay, et al., Chapter 7: Red Queen Communities, Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing, Valerie T. Eviner (editors), Infectious Disease Ecology, Princeton University Press, page 145,\nWe extend the Red Queen hypothesis, a mechanism proposed to maintain genetic diversity at the population level, to explain diversity at the community level."
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