Amazing—I often quote this phrase, but it turns out there is an entire theory related to evolution.
"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place, and to get somewhere, you need to run twice as fast".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis
The Red Queen hypothesis, also referred to as Red Queen's, Red Queen's race or The Red Queen Effect, is an evolutionaryhypothesis which proposes that organisms must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate not merely to gain reproductive advantage, but also simply to survive while pitted against ev...