Leigh Van Valen

Thinkers1935 to 2010Evolutionary biologist

Works

  • A New Evolutionary Law, Evolutionary Theory, 1973

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A University of Chicago evolutionary biologist who found that a group's probability of extinction stays roughly constant over time and proposed the Red Queen hypothesis: species must keep evolving just to hold their place against the species they coevolve with.

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