I'm trying to figure out whether this can live peacefully with the Red Queen Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis https://en.wikipedi

I'm trying to figure out whether this can live peacefully with the Red Queen Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis Basically, from Van Valen's data, species have a constant chance of going extinct, regardless of how long they've been around. His hypothesis is that even though speciation appears to be a discrete event, these species are constantly jockeying with each other for survival in a dynamic environment -- they have to run faster and faster to stay in the same place, and are always subject to falling out of the race, as it were. The devil's in the details, of course, but it's intriguing to jam these two ideas together.