evolution
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Craig Of The Creek Turned Pokémon Into An Important Life Lesson
For all the jokes that have been made about the Pokémon anime’s protagonist never really ageing, the larger franchise has always been focused on telling stories about change and growth. Even setting aside the anime, the games themselves are, at their core, about understanding how evolution’s a natural part of life.
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The Evolution Of Dragon Ball Characters
11The folks over at Dragon Ball World compiled a cool infographic of the main characters from the youngest appearance — but not necessarily first — to their oldest.
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Portal 2 Writer Ted Kosmatka Imagines A World Where Creationism Won
Ted Kosmatka’s Prophet of Bones takes place in a world where absolutely everybody knows that Darwin was wrong, and the world is only 5,800 years old. Until one researcher happens on an archeological miracle: an early hominid who used tools, and clearly diverged from humans longer ago. And then people start turning up dead.
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Spore Simulates Intelligent Design, Not Evolution
Spore‘s about evolution? What are you thinking? It’s not evolution at all! Well, that’s what Tim Dean over at Trembling Hand theorises: When you’re playing Spore, and you periodically pause to ‘evolve’ your organism, you’re not emulating evolution. But you are nicely emulating the way Intelligent Design works … Every time you meddle, it’s the…