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Education: How to win at evolution

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Stuart West and helpers compare the cut and thrust of three games that explore life's greatest competition.

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  1. Stuart West is Professor of Evolutionary Biology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, UK. He studies adaptation in organisms ranging from bacteria to humans.,

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West, S. Education: How to win at evolution. Nature 528, 192 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/528192a

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  1. David Harold Chester

    The evolution of Mankind has not stopped, but today is expressed through our macroeconomics or social systems which are still changing and developing. Its time we had a better game about it apart from "Monopoly".

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