Choose Your Own Evolution: Go Extinct or Survive? You Decide!
by Jules Howard, illustrated by Gordy Wright
Interest age: 9 to 13
Reading age: 9+
Published by Nosy Crow, 2025
About this book
Every animal on Earth is the product of an evolutionary journey, beginning with the simplest of slimy ancestors living in oceans over 400 million years ago and branching out into the range of complex life forms we see today.
This unique book engages its readers with the science by allowing them to actively choose their own evolutionary pathway.
Starting out as a humble, bacteria-eating blob, you must select the characteristics you would like to develop in response to pressures from the environment, with each choice leading to a different page.
Will you develop feet and venture onto land, or flippers to master the seas? If you are threatened, will you become a giant predator, or stay small and hidden away?
Try out all these evolutionary pathways, and many more, to learn about some amazing creatures and the adaptations they evolved over millions of years.
This book is genuinely fun, and the multiple-choice element works well with the subject matter. You will learn loads about this very interesting area of science (just be careful you don’t end up going extinct!)
A perfect book to use alongside any evolution and inheritance programme of study.
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