For a number of academic experts familiar with those debates who had heard of Spore or seen demonstrations of it, the game is a clever way to raise students’ interest in evolution. But they also ...

By taking on evolution—and, by default, intelligent design—Spore wades into a roiling ecosystem. So what happens when something as complex as human interaction or evolution gets reduced to ...

Could anything live up to such hype? In this case, at least: No. "Spore" is certainly ambitious, simulating nothing less than the entire evolution of a species, from single-celled microorganisms ...

It was a good lesson in nonlinear dynamics. Spore was even more ambitious–Wright promised to turn billions of years of evolution from single-celled creatures to intergalactic civilizations into ...

Could anything live up to such hype? In this case, no. Spore is ambitious, simulating no less than the entire evolution of a species, from single-celled microorganisms to interstellar explorers.