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You may have heard of this new video game called Spore. Developed by the same people who created Sim City and all the Sim seriese, it is supposed to be a Sim Everything. The gameplay follows the evolution of a single-celled organism into intelligent and sentient species, and it eventual development into a powerful space-faring race.
The marketing campaign for the game heavily advertised that that game is based on science, and it is also being pushed to schools as such. A group of real scientists, including evolutionary biologist and space astrophysicist reviewed the game and gave it a pathetic flunking grade here. I looked at the score card it it basically looked like one of your report books result slip - full of Cs, Ds and Fs.
So don’t tell your parents you need to buy the game to brush up your science grade.
The CELL and CREATURE stages
Organismic biology: D-
* Cell biology: D
* Genetics: F
* Development and reproduction: DEvolutionary processes: F
* Evolution as fact: B
* Mutation and variation: F
* Natural selection: F
* Sexual selection: F
* Genetic drift: F
* Historical contingency: D
* Constraints: D
* Evolutionary history: DThe TRIBAL and CIVILIZATION stages
Cultural anthropology: C-
Sociology: B+
The SPACE stage
Astrophysics overall grade: B
* laws of physics: C
* cosmology: B
* galactic structure: A
* stellar evolution: B
* planetary science: CAstrobiology overall grade: C
* origin of life: D
* planet habitability: B
* distribution of life in the universe: C
* extra terrestrial intelligence: C