Here we have the chief danger of using games in learning: "...the problem isn't just that Spore dumbs down the science or gets a few things wrong - it's meant to be a game, after all - but rather, it gets most of biology badly, needlessly, and often bizarrely wrong." See this article. "Spore is essentially a very impressive, entertaining, and elaborate Mr. Potato Head that uses the language of evolution but none of the major principles," conclude Gregory and Eldredge.
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