Question

In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice, "in this place it takes all the running you can do to stay in the same place." How is this statement logically connected with the idea of evolution by natural selection?

A. As individuals evolve to better fit their environment, their environment also changes, subjecting the individuals to continually changing selective pressures.
B. Running in place is an important measure of optimal running speed, which is a strong correlate of survival and reproduction.
C. As populations evolve to become better adapted to their environments, their environments also change, subjecting the populations to continually changing selective pressures.
D. As individuals evolve through natural selection, they tend to develop characteristics that cause them to be less adapted to their environment.
E. As individuals evolve through natural selection, they tend to move to new places that are very similar to the places in which they originally evolved.

Answer 1

Option A, As individuals evolve to better fit their environment, their environment also changes, subjecting the individuals to continually changing selective pressures.

Step-by-step explanation:

By running the author means that an organism has to continuously evolve in order to cope up with the changing environmental conditions and hence survive and be fertile.

As per the theory of natural selection, an individual that is best fit to the prevailing environmental condition is able to survive and reproduce. And in order to be fit, an organism is required to evolve continuously.

Hence, option A is correct