As our understanding of biological evolution continues to deepen, tension still surrounds the relationship between competition and cooperation in the evolution of the biosphere, with rival viewpoints often associated with the Red Queen and Black Queen hypotheses respectively. This essay seeks to reconcile these viewpoints by integrating observations of some general trends in biosphere evolution with concepts from game theory. It is here argued that biodiversity and ecological cooperation are intimately related, and that both tend to cyclically increase over biological history; this is likely due to the greater relative stability of cooperation over competition as a means of long-term conflict resolution within ecosystems. By integrating this view of the biosphere with existing models such as Niche Game Theory, it may be argued that competition and cooperation in ecosystems coexist at equilibria which shift preferentially towards increasing cooperation over biological history. This potentially points to a state of “cooperative equilibrium” as a limit or endpoint in long-term biosphere evolution, such that Black Queen and Red Queen behavior dominate different phases in an evolutionary movement towards optimal cooperative stability in ecological networks. This concept, if accepted, may also bear implications for developing future mathematical models in evolutionary biology, as well as for resolving the perennial debate regarding the relative roles of conflict and harmony in nature.

随着我们对生物进化的理解不断加深，生物圈进化中竞争与合作的关系仍然紧张，对立的观点往往分别与红皇后假说和黑皇后假说联系在一起。本文试图通过将对生物圈进化的一些普遍趋势的观察与博弈论的概念相结合来调和这些观点。这里认为生物多样性和生态合作密切相关，并且两者都倾向于在生物历史中周期性地增加；这可能是因为合作比竞争具有更大的相对稳定性，作为生态系统内长期解决冲突的一种手段。通过将这种生物圈观点与现有模型（如利基博弈论）相结合，可以说，生态系统中的竞争与合作在平衡状态下共存，优先转向加强生物历史上的合作。这可能表明“合作平衡”状态是长期生物圈进化的极限或终点，因此黑皇后和红皇后的行为主导着生态网络中最佳合作稳定性的进化运动的不同阶段。这个概念如果被接受，也可能对在进化生物学中发展未来的数学模型以及解决关于自然中冲突与和谐的相对作用的长期争论产生影响。这可能表明“合作平衡”状态是长期生物圈进化的极限或终点，因此黑皇后和红皇后的行为主导着生态网络中最佳合作稳定性的进化运动的不同阶段。这个概念如果被接受，也可能对在进化生物学中发展未来的数学模型以及解决关于自然中冲突与和谐的相对作用的长期争论产生影响。这可能表明“合作平衡”状态是长期生物圈进化的极限或终点，因此黑皇后和红皇后的行为主导着生态网络中最佳合作稳定性的进化运动的不同阶段。这个概念如果被接受，也可能对在进化生物学中发展未来的数学模型以及解决关于自然中冲突与和谐的相对作用的长期争论产生影响。