A new evolutionary law

Leigh Van Valen's paper on a new evolutionary law. Both papers invoke his Red Queen: where fitness is earning money or surviving detection, the world keeps changing as other lineages evolve, so trials cannot be reused. Under trial-bound tempo (P6) the Red Queen runs at the speed of the market, and buying faster thought shortens the work, not the world's reply.

Cited in

both papers (Flagship: Evolution by design; Companion §6.3, Fig. 6)

Used for

P6Prediction 2P6; prediction 2; Fig. 6b

Strand

Evolution & heredity · Evolutionary theory & Darwinian populations

Cite

@article{vanvalen1973new,
  title = {A new evolutionary law},
  author = {Leigh Van Valen},
  year = {1973},
  journal = {Evolutionary Theory},
}