Evolution was covered in the journal Nature. The article was written by Stuart West, a Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Oxford who has used Evolution in his undergraduate class.

• https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1487263/evolution-and-other-evolution-themed-games-nature
• https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1580710/using-game-evolution-teach-evolution

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Set-up
1) Give every player a food bag and a species board.
2) Randomly choose the start player.
3) Shuffle the cards and start playing! (easy peasy)

Turn Sequence for Each Round
• Players with no species take a species board.
1) Drawing cards: 3 cards + 1 card per species

2) Playing cards:
• Play one face-down card to determine the amount of plant food available this round.
• Play cards to create new species and modify existing species.

3) Feeding phase:
• Reveal the food cards and put that number of food on the Watering Hole.
• Feed your species plant food - or -
• Attack another species if you have a carnivore

4) Clean up phase:
• Species that received no food go extinct.
• Reduce the population of species that were not fully fed
• Place the food in your score bag.

End of Game
When the deck runs out, play one final round and then score points.

End of Game Scoring
• 1 point for each food in your bag
• 1 point for each population of your existing species
• 1 point for each trait on your existing species

Components

• 1 Watering Hole Board
• 1 First Player Marker
• 129 Trait Cards
  • 17 Carnivore Trait Cards
  • 7 of each other 16 Trait Cards
• 24 Species Boards
• 48 Wooden Markers
• 240 Food Tokens
• 6 Food Token Bags
• 6 Player Aids
• 1 Rulebook

Cards/Sleeves

• 129 Cards @ 88mm. X 63mm. Fitted Standard Card Game Sleeve / Mayday Green

German edition
The German edition from Schmidt Spiele is only suitable for up to 5 players and only contains 110 cards:14 carnivore trait cards and 6 of each other trait card.