Crikey!  I just played a fantastic game which incorporates the ideas of natural selection.  You create your species with different variations, some with long necks and others with short hair, and then you set 'em lose and let 'em duke it out in the wild.  What's tricky is getting the right combination of variations so they survive all the challenges that face them for a million years.  Something new pops up every millenia or so and only those organisms with traits to help them succeed in those situation survive and are passed down.  With this game, you can really see how species could change through generations of natural selection to better adapt to the environment.  After four exciting rounds, my species finally survived a million years.  I just wish the creatures looked more like crocodiles.  God I love crocodiles.

Good day my fellow friends!

 

My population survived 888,888 years.

 

Today, for the first time in my life, I played an electronic game on the computer; the game was called “The Survival Game” which gave me a better understanding of natural selection. In this game, I had to pick three variants to play the game; these variants contained different mutations such as: thin, bulky, furry, hairless, long neck, short legs, long legs, stripes, and many others, and these mutations contained different pros and cons to different natural occurrences. As I played, my population acquired new traits and there would be a natural occurrence/predator that would affect the life span of my population. The creatures in my population that survived were able to produce more offspring than the other creatures, which is also known as natural selection, with their traits in a different way, which is also known as evolution.

 

-Jane Austen

My species survived one million years until the program cut me off. It really was not very difficult because I just had to pick a logical variation of mutations that would do well at surviving large changes in climate. I believe that the program did a good job of representing natural selection because it showed how the populations of the most successful thriving and the populations of the less successful adapting to the varying weather conditions. If the same circumstances were applied to real life, that species would survive. I also think that the voice of Charles Darwin was a poorly made recreation of my computer's voice. It was quite amusing.

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Hi everyone! Have you guys heard of the cool, new Darwin Survival Game? Well, I played it for the first time yesterday and let me say it was fabulous. I got the score 888,888. In the game, your variation of species goes through a variety of obstacles to determine which will survive and which will die off. This modeled evolution in a cute,and creative way by showing how certain traits will help a species survive through certain situations. 

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I just played a game called "The Survival Game" on a website about Charles Darwin and his Theory of Natural Selection. Darwin walks the player through by first encouraging the picking of three different animals in the same species that would hopefully be able to live and thrive and keep the species going for 1,000,000 years or more. After you choose the three organisms, they live in an environment that like the real world, has natural disasters and predators, and if diverse enough characters were chosen, the species will live the full 1,000,000 years just as mine did. This quick and simple game helps visually explain that the fittest organisms through natural selection survive and change over time to correspond with the environment. 

Hello fellow believers! Today I played a magical game of survial! I recall that the game was named after a guy name Charles Darwin. Anways, in the game you have to choose three different variations of creatures that you would like. Some were tall, some had spikes, some had fur, some had red heads or green heads, etc. The goal was that if you chose the right variations of creatures you'd survive to 1 million years! Too bad for me, I only lived to about 888,888. The game proved to me that the more favorable traits you chose from yor variations, the longer you lived and the more reproduction occured! Of course, unfavorable traits died off after certain natural occurences. Spectacular! 

I played a nifty game!!! It was ALLL about Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection!! I MADE IT TO 1 MILLION YEARS!!!!!!!!!! It showed natural selection by having differenciants within the species, some had long legs, short legs, some were green, some were red!!! The game showed that only the ones most fit for the environment would survive!! It's a cruel world out there! THAT'S WHY WE SHOULD ALL USE OXI-CLEAN!!!!!! Why you might as? TO CLEAN IT UP!!!!!!

Although technology is quite scarce during my time and my love for human interaction thrives, I tried this "Survival Game" on this "internet" where my population survived up to one million years. This game may have helped me teach my students at St. Mary's High School for Girls'. From what I learned from this game where a population of a certain species is trialed in various obstacles to keep the population growing and going, natural selection shows the gradualism of a population through a diversity of traits being passed down biologically in order for survival, and this process is incited for Evolution. Charles Darwin, whom I have previously shared my thoughts on, shared such scientific theory. Once I said "To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it", it is equivalent to saying " To keep a population going we have to keep diversifying by traits to keep on". I also believe God has given this opportunity for us to be here on Earth and to keep this race going.

Hey. My animals lived 888,888 years. It is easy to live if you have been through Vietnam. Natural selection is shown in this game because only certain animals with certain traits lived and passed on that specific time period. The animals with the unfavorable traits got killed off, just like we kill off all the ducks that i see when i have my gun nearby. i swear that i have seen some of those animals in Nom. 

Well I just played this interesting game.  I guess it explained natural selection, but I just thought it to be common sense.  I started off with different looking animals but they intermingled and created ones that were completely different than the originals.  As the environment changed, I needed to have different characteristics in my animals that could help them deal with the changing surroundings. This shows survival of the fittest.   My species survived a million years.  The good Lord did not make all animals the same for a reason.  This short game reinforced what I already knew, and now… I can get back to my music.  Hey, maybe I can add those Darwin noises into my next song.  Add to that mystic Rock ‘N Roll!

I got to 1000000!!!

This game is really cool. It shows the process of natural selection really well. When the predator came the spikey birds were the ones who survived because they had th

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I have just had the oppurtunity to understand the process of natural selction through a common jest of the modern age. The idea of this jest was to have one's species survive 1,000,000 years, a trifle which I had accomplished, through differences and genetic mutations which allow the particular species of avis bird to change over time, making them more adept at surviving in their everchanging environment. It was a contest in which only the most superior of the species could survive and reproduce, thus passing their traits onto their offspring. Once again, my idea of inequality and superiority has been proven correct, only the most adept will survive.

What? that's crazy, only 555,555 years? I guess this shows Natural selection, because sometimes the weather would change and the little creatures who are most adapted for that habitat would live longer. Also not to mention the beast, he was like rawr, and he aso killed off most of the creatures unless they had long legs then they could runaway easier and survive longer and then give those long legs to thier children. Since the habitat favored some or the creatures some would call it natural selection.  

1,000,000. I lasted 1 million years in the survival game. The game showed natural selection because only the animals with favorable traits survived.