Game Curricula Sommelier


CORE CONCEPTS SUGGESTED GAMES
Descent with modificationBios: Mesofauna, Bios: Megafauna
Population genetics and demographyBiosphere
Species distributions and nichesBiosphere, Pangea
Evolutionary arms racesEvolution: Climate, Darwin’s Choice, Evolution: The Beginning
Classical geneticsGenotype: A Mendelian Genetics Game
Conservation biologyEndangered**
Cellular biologyCytosis: A Cellular Biology Game
THE EVOLUTION OF COMPETITIVE INTERACTIONS
Interspecific competitionEvolution: Climate, Darwin’s Choice, Evolution: The Beginning
Aposematism and mimicryEvolution: Climate
Plants and herbivoresBios: Mesofauna, Bios: Megafauna
Parasite-host interactions and infectious diseasePathogenesis, Bios: Genesis
THE EVOLUTION OF NOVELTY
Complex characteristicsEvolution: Climate, Evolution: The Beginning
Rates of evolutionOceans: Evolution: The Beginning (with modified gameplay)****
Speciation and phenotypic evolutionEvolution: Climate, Darwin’s Choice, Bios Series (Genesis, Mesofauna, Megafauna)
THE HISTORY OF LIFE ON EARTH
The emergence of lifeBios: Genesis
Precambrian lifeBios: Genesis
The Cambrian explosion and the origins of animal diversityBios: Mesofauna, Bios: Megafauna
Mass extinctionsBios: Mesofauna, Bios: Megafauna
The Cenozoic: the modern world takes shape (species and tectonic movements)Bios: Mesofauna, Bios: Megafauna
The Cenozoic: Pleistocene eventsBiosphere (with our materials)
WHERE DID WE COME FROM?
Our closest living relativesNeanderthal, Bios: Origins
Our ancestry: Hominins through timeBios: Origins
The human brain and languageNeanderthal 
SCIENCE HISTORY
Charles Darwin’s voyageOn the Origin of Species
Alexander von Humboldt’s voyagesHumboldt’s Great Voyage***
Gregory Mendel’s experimentsGenotype
NATURAL HISTORYWingspan**, Inhabit the Earth
TAXA FOCUS
Prokaryotes and EukaryotesBios: Genesis
PlantsBios: Genesis, Bios: Mesofauna, Bios: Megafauna, On the Origins of Species
MollusksBios: Megafauna
InsectsBios: Mesofauna, Dominant Species, On the Origins of Species
FishesA.D.A.P.T, Oceans, Dominant Species Marine, On the Origins of Species
MammalsBios: Megafauna, Endangered, Biosphere, Evolution series*, On the Origins of Species, Dominant Species
ReptilesBios: Megafauna, Biosphere, Evolution series*, Dominant Species, On the Origins of Species
BirdsEvolution (w/ flight Expansion)*, Dominant Species, Wingspan, On the Origins of Species, Biosphere
AmphibiansPangea, Dominant Species
HumansBios: Origins, Neanderthal, Greenland, Endangered
Extinct taxaEvo (taxa: dinosaurs), Bios Series (many taxa represent key evolutionary milestones that are now extinct)
*taxa included are non-existing, but if they did, they most likely ally with these taxa ** excellent game, not reviewer here, *** okay game – proceed with caution, ****tweak rules to reflect different geological eras by adjusting the number of traits each species could possess based on the survivability of the era: Great Permian Extinction when many taxa went extinct (= fewer trait cards)— or Cretaceous Period where many lineages radiated explosively (= more trait cards)