About Natural Selection
Explore how organisms with different traits survive various selection agents within the environment.
How to play Natural Selection
Everything is hands-on: drag, click and experiment — the simulation reacts instantly. Explore how organisms with different traits survive various selection agents within the environment.
Questions & answers
- What is Natural Selection?
- Natural Selection is a free interactive simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations (University of Colorado Boulder) that you can play right in your browser on crumble.lol — no downloads and no sign-up. Explore how organisms with different traits survive various selection agents within the environment.
- What can kids learn from Natural Selection?
- It helps kids explore: determine which mutations are favored by the selection agents of predators and food variety and which mutations are neutral. describe which traits change the survivability of an organism in different environments. experiment with environments which produce a stable population of bunnies, a population that dies out, and a population that takes over the world. track genes through multiple generations. compare how dominant and recessive genes get passed onto offspring.
- What age is Natural Selection good for?
- It is designed for elementary school (roughly ages 5–10) up to high school, and curious kids outside that range can absolutely enjoy poking around it too.
- Is Natural Selection free to play?
- Yes — Natural Selection is completely free on crumble.lol and runs fully in your browser on computers and tablets.