CORE CONCEPTS | SUGGESTED GAMES |
Descent with modification | Bios: Mesofauna, Bios: Megafauna |
Population genetics and demography | Biosphere |
Species distributions and niches | Biosphere, Pangea |
Evolutionary arms races | Evolution: Climate, Darwin’s Choice, Evolution: The Beginning |
Classical genetics | Genotype: A Mendelian Genetics Game |
Conservation biology | Endangered** |
Cellular biology | Cytosis: A Cellular Biology Game |
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THE EVOLUTION OF COMPETITIVE INTERACTIONS | |
Interspecific competition | Evolution: Climate, Darwin’s Choice, Evolution: The Beginning |
Aposematism and mimicry | Evolution: Climate |
Plants and herbivores | Bios: Mesofauna, Bios: Megafauna |
Parasite-host interactions and infectious disease | Pathogenesis, Bios: Genesis |
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THE EVOLUTION OF NOVELTY | |
Complex characteristics | Evolution: Climate, Evolution: The Beginning |
Rates of evolution | Oceans: Evolution: The Beginning (with modified gameplay)**** |
Speciation and phenotypic evolution | Evolution: Climate, Darwin’s Choice, Bios Series (Genesis, Mesofauna, Megafauna) |
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THE HISTORY OF LIFE ON EARTH | |
The emergence of life | Bios: Genesis |
Precambrian life | Bios: Genesis |
The Cambrian explosion and the origins of animal diversity | Bios: Mesofauna, Bios: Megafauna |
Mass extinctions | Bios: Mesofauna, Bios: Megafauna |
The Cenozoic: the modern world takes shape (species and tectonic movements) | Bios: Mesofauna, Bios: Megafauna |
The Cenozoic: Pleistocene events | Biosphere (with our materials) |
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WHERE DID WE COME FROM? | |
Our closest living relatives | Neanderthal, Bios: Origins |
Our ancestry: Hominins through time | Bios: Origins |
The human brain and language | Neanderthal |
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SCIENCE HISTORY | |
Charles Darwin’s voyage | On the Origin of Species |
Alexander von Humboldt’s voyages | Humboldt’s Great Voyage*** |
Gregory Mendel’s experiments | Genotype |
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NATURAL HISTORY | Wingspan**, Inhabit the Earth |
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TAXA FOCUS | |
Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes | Bios: Genesis |
Plants | Bios: Genesis, Bios: Mesofauna, Bios: Megafauna, On the Origins of Species |
Mollusks | Bios: Megafauna |
Insects | Bios: Mesofauna, Dominant Species, On the Origins of Species |
Fishes | A.D.A.P.T, Oceans, Dominant Species Marine, On the Origins of Species |
Mammals | Bios: Megafauna, Endangered, Biosphere, Evolution series*, On the Origins of Species, Dominant Species |
Reptiles | Bios: Megafauna, Biosphere, Evolution series*, Dominant Species, On the Origins of Species |
Birds | Evolution (w/ flight Expansion)*, Dominant Species, Wingspan, On the Origins of Species, Biosphere |
Amphibians | Pangea, Dominant Species |
Humans | Bios: Origins, Neanderthal, Greenland, Endangered |
Extinct taxa | Evo (taxa: dinosaurs), Bios Series (many taxa represent key evolutionary milestones that are now extinct) |