Evolution (party game)
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Evolution is a party game
Party game
Party games are games that some people play as forms of entertainment at social gatherings. Party games usually involve more than one player. There are a large number and styles of party games available and the one selected will depend on the atmosphere that is sought to be generated...

 for both children and adults. It can be played either indoors or outdoors, although because of the movement involved, it usually requires a large amount of space.

In Evolution, participants go through several different stages of evolution, until finally becoming human
Human
Humans are the only living species in the Homo genus...

. Each stage is distinguished by a pattern of movement. The stages can be, for example:
  • Amoeba
    Amoeba
    Amoeba is a genus of Protozoa.History=The amoeba was first discovered by August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof in 1757. Early naturalists referred to Amoeba as the Proteus animalcule after the Greek god Proteus, who could change his shape...

    : moves the arms in a swimming motion, making sucking noises.
  • Cockroach
    Cockroach
    Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattaria or Blattodea, of which about 30 species out of 4,500 total are associated with human habitations...

    : snaps the palms or fingers like claws, making clicking noises with the teeth.
  • Rabbit
    Rabbit
    Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world...

    : holds the fingers to the side of the head like ears and chirps.
  • Gorilla
    Gorilla
    Gorillas are the largest extant species of primates. They are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Africa. Gorillas are divided into two species and either four or five subspecies...

    : bangs the fists on the chest and bellows.
  • Human
    Human
    Humans are the only living species in the Homo genus...

    .


All participants start out as amoebae. When two participants in the same stage meet each other, they may engage in game of rock-paper-scissors
Rock-paper-scissors
Rock-paper-scissors is a hand game played by two people. The game is also known as roshambo, or another ordering of the three items ....

. The winner evolves one stage further, whereas the loser regresses one stage back (unless he/she already was an amoeba). Upon becoming a human, a participant is out of the game. The game necessarily ends with one person remaining in each of the sub-human stages, at which point the game is over.
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