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. 2019 May 8;20(8):1083–1090. doi: 10.1080/15384047.2019.1599662

Box 1.

Red queen race conversation from Alice in the wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

“Well, in our country,” Alice said, still panting. “You usually get to other places – if you run fast for a long time, as we have been doing.”
“A slow country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it requires all the runs you can do, stay in the same place. If you want to reach other places, you must run at least twice as fast as you have been doing!”.