‘Discovery: The Human Evolution Game’
Check out a new educational card game about the evolution of humanity with ‘Discovery.’
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Tag: Evolution
‘Evolution’ Is Evolving Again
‘Evolution’, a fantastic tabletop game from North Star Games, continues to evolve—this time, making the leap from analog to digital.
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Stack Overflow: On Human Evolution
Part of my reading resolutions where some books about this topic, here are my thoughts so far.
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Wacky Lactation in Nature: Underwater, Nipple-less, and Other Milky Oddities
Having breastfed both of my children for a whole year each, I had a lot of time to ponder this evolutionary trait we share with our mammal cousins. So I did some research, and it turns out lactation in nature is even weirder than I thought.
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‘Evolution: The Beginning’ Simplifies Without Dumbing Down
‘Evolution: The Beginning’ by North Star Games proves that you don’t have to dumb down a strategy game to make it accessible to younger players.
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‘Grandmother Fish’ Released Into the Wild
The long anticipated release of ‘Grandmother Fish’ is finally here!
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Gather ‘Round Padawans (Part 11): The Vision
How do we reprogram? How do we change? How do we evolve? Can we?
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Reaping the Rewards: 'Evolutionary Tales'
In “Reaping the Rewards,” we take a look at a crowdfunded project in its final form. Today’s project is ‘Evolutionary Tales,’ a beautifully illustrated book for kids about evolution.
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The Best Tabletop Games of 2015
Well, it’s the beginning of a new year, so let’s take a look back at some of our favorite games from 2015.
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Reaping the Rewards: ‘Grandmother Fish’
In “Reaping the Rewards,” we take a look at a crowdfunded project in its final form. Today’s project is ‘Grandmother Fish,’ the first book to teach evolution to preschoolers.
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Google Takes Over the World in 2 Minutes
Google’s new “Google, evolved” video piqued Patricia’s curiosity. Check it out!
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Kickstarter Alert: 'Evolutionary Tales': A Child's First Book on Evolution
‘Evolutionary Tales’ is a new book by Matt Cubberly with beautiful illustrations from May Villani that just launched on Kickstarter. ‘Evolutionary Tales’ showcases ten very different animals and how they evolved and is a great introduction to evolution for young children.
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Reaping the Rewards: The Evolution of 'Evolution'
In “Reaping the Rewards,” I take a look at a crowdfunded project in its final form. Today’s game: the second edition of ‘Evolution’ from North Star Games, along with the ‘Flight’ expansion.
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Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: ‘Evolution’ Expansion Takes ‘Flight’
It’s getting crowded down here on the ground: not only are there carnivores trying to hunt you down, but there’s so much competition for plant food that it’s getting pretty scarce. Maybe it’s time to take to the skies, with ‘Evolution: Flight.’
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Kickstarter Alert: Grandmother Fish by Jonathan Tweet!
Jonathan Tweet (superstar RPG designer and co-creator of D&D 3E) launches a Kickstarter for Grandmother Fish, a children’s picture book about evolution.
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Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: Evolution
What’s the best way for a species to survive? A long neck helps you get out-of-reach food, but camouflage protects you from predators … until they evolve some keen eyesight. Or maybe you go for safety in numbers, so that even if a few get eaten the species will live on. Evolution, by North Star Games, puts you in charge of adapting your species to the changing ecosystem.
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Evolution Card Game Review
Evolution is fun, with the ability to be easy for beginning gamers or complicated for those who are seasoned strategy game players.
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Evolution Toys for Kids!
The Giant Evolution Timeline in this subscription service is not to be missed.
Continue ReadingRight Where You Are Now: Painting Our Planet’s History
In the crowded aisles of New York ComicCon, a quiet book called out to me. My eye was drawn to the painterly, slightly retro style, and as I thumbed through the book, I fell in love with all of the …
Continue ReadingThe Evolution of the Geek
The Internet is such a big and wonderful place, it is easy for some cool things to slip by unnoticed. My Google+ feed recently excavated a great infographic from Flowtown depicting the evolution of Geeks, something GeekDad missed the first …
Continue ReadingSMACKDOWN! Pokemon Evolution vs. Biological Evolution
Pokemon fever has hit our household, as it can in even the best of families. For those readers who have been in solitary confinement for the last decade, Pokemon is a collectible card game with hundreds of little creatures that …
Continue ReadingAnnouncing Charlie’s Playhouse Evolution and Art Contest!
Do your kids love science? Do they love art? Are they creative? Get them involved with Charlie’s Playhouse Evolution and Art Contest. They choose a creature, change its environment and figure out what would happen with the evolution of that …
Continue ReadingCellCraft: Can a Creationist Game Teach Biology?
This week GeekTeen John sent me a link about a just-released computer game called CellCraft. He thought I might want to write about it on GeekDad, because it was fun to play and full of information about what makes up …
Continue ReadingDo You Teach Your Kids About Darwin? (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
We homeschoolers often get a bum rap for trying to insulate our kids from evolutionary theory. But it’s just as likely that your public school student has never heard of the subject. In fact, “about one-third of biology teachers support …
Continue Reading150th Anniversary of On the Origin of Species, as Celebrated by Charlie’s Playhouse
The 24th of November is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s work, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.” To celebrate this important …
Continue ReadingHave Some Darwin-Inspired Fun with Charlie’s Playhouse
Amy Cottrell of Geek Parenting posted this excellent post about Charlie’s Playhouse, a unique website selling toys and games inspired by Charles (“Charlie”) Darwin. You can even see her kids really getting into the Giant Timeline playmat. Charlie’s Playhouse looks …
Continue ReadingEvolution In Two Minutes Or Less
GeekDads might be interested in entering the new contest over at Discover Magazine, Evolution In Two Minutes Or Less. The contest rules say you can use any props, animations, geeklets, or other techniques to get your point across. The only unbreakable rule is the two-minute limit. Why? As the site says: As you probably know, […]
Continue ReadingEnter the Devolvotron and See Yourself From an Earlier Time
Ever wondered what your ancestors looked like? No, I don’t mean Great Great Great Great Great Grampa Seth. I mean your waaaay-back ancestors. We’re talking Lucy-era here. Well wonder no more, fans of evolution. The Open University’s "Devolve Me" site is here to help you visualize your 1.5 million-year-old self. The process couldn’t be simpler. […]
Continue ReadingWhat a Bear: Teaching Natural Selection at Home
Happy Darwin Day! And what’s Darwin Day without a bit of fun involving his most influential of ideas: natural selection. There are a lot of activities out there that deal with the predator/prey relationship as regards natural selection. You could setup an activity with colored worms or pieces of paper. My personal fav is Lynn […]
Continue ReadingEvolution Resources for Kids and Parents
As I mentioned last year, most schools don’t deal with evolution until high school – long after kids start to wonder (and form their own theories) about how life works. And even then, many do an inadequate job, to say the least. But there are some useful resources for exploring the concept of natural selection […]
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