A New Evolutionary Law.

Van Valen, L. (1973). A New Evolutionary Law. Evolutionary Theory, 1(1), 1-30.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1973

Link

https://www.mn.uio.no/cees/english/services/van-valen/evolutionary-theory/volume-1/vol-1-no-1-pages-1-30-l-van-valen-a-new-evolutionary-law.pdf

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biology_ecology, systems_cybernetics

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Coevolution
  • The concept answers a recurring problem across domains: why do strategies that work brilliantly against a fixed opponent decay so reliably against a responsive one, and why does effort so often buy only the preservation of the status quo rather than genuine gain?

    This sourceIntroduces the Red Queen hypothesis: the observation of an approximately constant extinction probability within taxa, explained as a biotic environment that degrades each species' adaptive advantage as fast as it is won, so continual adaptation buys only the maintenance of relative position.

• Non-Stationary Objective
  • In evolutionary biology, Red Queen dynamics — coevolving species each forming a moving fitness target for the other — is the canonical biological case.

    This sourceIntroduces the Red Queen hypothesis: coevolving species each form a continuously moving fitness target for the other, the canonical biological non-stationary objective.

Domain-specific

• Red Queen Hypothesis
  • The characteristic result is a treadmill—substantial evolutionary activity without a durable improvement in position relative to the evolving biotic environment.

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