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From: kuento@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How to play Ecology?
Message-ID: <28535.27b75caa@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 91 09:10:34 GMT
References: <59550@aurs01.UUCP> <5440154@hplsla.HP.COM> <2493@hexagon.se>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <2493@hexagon.se>, daniel@hexagon.se (Daniel Deimert) writes:
> In article <5440154@hplsla.HP.COM> andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) writes:
>>> I just downloaded "ECOLOGY.LZH" from Delphi, and I can't figure
>>> out how to play it (Guess I'm just stupid... 8^B).  Can anyone
>>> clue me in?  It looks great!
>>
>>Join the club! It looks like great fun but the only thing I've managed to do
> 
> I don't know about wheter ECOLOGY.LZH is only a demo or not, but if it's
> the "real thing" things are easy enough: First, you have to make sure
> you don't die of starvation.  Second, reproduce yourself.  Third, make
> sure you evolve to higher levels, (spider -> flying insect -> dog [!],
> or dog -> horse -> "human" [!]).  The object of the game is to become
> "human" (ie two legs, two arms, no wings :-).
> 
> It's fun. It's great. It's ECO!
> 
But take it from an evolutionary ecologist - it doesn't bear the
*slightest* resemblance to ecology. In fact, if I can get a copy, I
plan to use it to show my students a humorous example of pseudo-
science. And frankly, folks, any living organism is a "higher-level"
organism - only extinct organisms rank "lower" (is any point along
the circumference of a perfect sphere "farther" from the center than
any other? Does a sphere have a "top"? If not, then humans can't
claim any special status).
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