Origins: The Card Game Of Human Evolution

Origins card game by Mindy Pitre, Nicole Burt, and Holly Hunold.

​Origins is a card game created by three anthropologists. Mindy Pitre (St. Lawrence University) and Nicole Burt (Cleveland Museum of Natural History), whose extensive teaching and outreach experience is combined with the work of Holly Hunold, a medical illustrator also trained in anthropology. They created the game to help students to understand core concepts of evolution in a fun and exciting way.

The four forces of evolution, starring Darwin. Original art for the card game ‘Origins’ by Holly Hunold.

​Students work individually or in groups to answer questions on cards that are color-coded into different topics, including Being Human, Origins & Transitions, Primates, Evolution & Variation, Genetics and Fundamentals. An instructor can read the cards and pose the questions to students, adding up points per student or team.

Source: forbes.com
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