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In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass," Alice runs endlessly alongside the Red Queen but never moves ahead. "It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place," the Queen explains.
That idea has long been used to describe evolutionary standoffs between species, such as hosts and the parasites or pathogens that attack them. But it also applies much closer to home. "Though we typically use this metaphor to describe evolutionary arms races bet...
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