Running to Remain Leigh Van Valen, the Red Queen Hypothesis, and the Coevolutionary Future
Abstract
Leigh Van Valen’s Red Queen hypothesis remains one of the most fertile ideas in evolutionary theory because it shifted attention from organisms adapting to a fixed world toward lineages adapting inside worlds that other lineages are also changing. That move now resonates strongly with contemporary host–parasite genomics, macroevolutionary theory, competitive co-evolution, self-play, LLM-agent training, and adaptive safety. This monograph revisits Van Valen’s original insight, examines how current evolutionary biology has refined it, and argues that the Red Queen is increasingly becoming not only a biological explanation but also a design principle for artificial intelligence, artificial life, and resilient adaptive agents.
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