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I’ve been thinking it would be fun to build a simple game where you get three organisms and you’re supposed to identify which two are most closely related, for
by dhosek 4y ago
I’ve been thinking it would be fun to build a simple game where you get three organisms and you’re supposed to identify which two are most closely related, for example, strawberry, apple, orange, or hippopotamus, horse, rhinoceros or for the big challenge, squid, earthworm, fish.
- jschveibinz 4y agoSounds like fun to me.
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- crazygringo 4y agoI love that idea. If you turn it into a mobile friendly site, and then reveal the common ancestor of the two closest, and the ancestor of all three, that would turn into basically my favorite educational addiction ever. Bonus points if there are maps showing world geographical distributions.
- dhosek 4y agoTrying to track down common ancestors would be a challenge (not to mention that in most cases the common ancestor is unknown), I figure I’d be instead indicating how far up the kingdom-phylum-class-order-family-genus-species hierarchy you need to go.