When Should You Evolve Generations? Ancestors- The Humankind Odyssey 

“I learned the ability of stripping”. That’s something to put on your resume

I wish there was a co op. Like invite a friend into your clan but yall have to stay together. Even if the second player didnt get to control the generations etc

If you skip generations don't forget to check up on the bones of the elders that died, doing so almost all the time gave me enough neuronal energy to fill up all the neurons that I couldn't reinforce for the generation skip immediately.

I lost twice already but the game is nuts!! Its easy to get lost in this game for hours . Glad I found these vids. Couldnt even kill anything before I saw them

Omg, I thought it was critical to lock all skills before evolving 🤦‍♀️ so I am still in the first form, but have done and explored and killed almost everything hahahaha (except for the elephants/mammuts, havent seen those) Time to evolve I guess! Haha

Okay so, this is all really good info, I used it as my play style, but just to add something so everyone knows, as far an mutations go, the child becomes an adult, then an elder, if the elder dies however, you lose that mutation if you do not evolve then before then, so if an elder has a mutation you really want, you need to evolve in order to keep it, Iv been trying to start walking on 2 feet at all times, I got the mutation and my elder died and it went away because I did not know this

before you get killed by a animal make a bed where you go it your save points alone in the wild and you can press pause go back to the main menu it will save you it has save me couples of times back to my old monkey.

I love learning this game from your videos, so far you are the most helpful and entertaining that I have found for this game.

I think google can read my mind. Literally just as I was thinking about this, the video popped up on my feed 2 minutes after upload.

love the vid man doing great keep them coming i cant get enough of them

Thanks for the video! I got about 30% feats done and I didn't know whether to evolve or not!

Learned the ability of stripping 😂😂

I just bought this game. I was always fascinated with the concept of it. I have 2 kids and am taking it slow; watching vids trying to understand the process better. Thanks for the info this helped me understand when to evolve, but now I just want do some trial and error, mess around and see what this game is all about.

I guess they've made an update to since this video has been released. When I try to lock down a trait, it places a reinforcements on every dot on the line all the way out to the point where I try to lock it down. In other words, if I have 4 reinforcements and i click on the fourth dot out on the neuron line, it will use all four of my reinforcements. Mine does not act like the way you just portrayed in this video @ 1:28

Off topic, but last I checked, the consensus was that Sahelanthropus Tchadensis is more likely to be a close cousin of the human/chimp MRCA, than one of our actual ancestors. Interesting they chose to use that species here. Most likely it was chosen as a placeholder for the species that actually is ancestral to us from that time, of which there is no name or specimen discovered yet.

IMNSHO, the ideal scenario for a given generation seems to be to breed AND recruit a total of 3 fertile females, immediately sire 2 children apiece (optimally you want to maintain a related and a separate unrelated bloodline, because the former cannot inbreed), prioritizing people with beneficial mutant genes. TIP: For free and easy neuronal energy, grab 2 children and make the rounds of all your local dead ancestors and identify their corpses - with enuf bodies it will fully fill your meter. You can only do this once per generation per body, so dont miss out or squander the full benefit by doing it solo without kids. Also, dipping beehives seems to give free neuronal energy and health both (its an infinite node that never runs out). With the free neuronal energy you can connect any traits you unlock by training and discoveries, and with the max of 6 children you can reinforce 6 traits .... at which point you either Gen+ or Evolve. As for me - after about 6 generations in the starting area i've got a good chunk of the center of the traits tree done, ive got 6 children ready but only 3 new reinforcable traits ... and for me, THAT is going to force me to into me first evolution, because ive nearly exhausted the easy discoveries in the starting area, and thus it's hard to 'train' to unlock the remaining three new ones. If I were in a new zone, it'd be much faster to progress (i.e. unlock new neuron-traits for learning and reinforcement) because of all the new plants and animals and resources to discover and manipulate. BOTTOM LINE: choose gen+ if there's still plenty to discover, do, and learn in a given area - but once those things run low and it seems like there's nothing new nearby, choose Evolve instead.

First comment love watching your videos. just started playing ancestors great game. Keep up the good work

Helps so much thanks for the upload

Thanks for the information. Very useful and straight to the point. 👍

Thank you for the tip!

I’ve got about 80% done and I’m still confused about some things but I love the game

You also get more reinforcements when you discover new areas. Also, if you lose a female you can discover a new one out in the wild.

Big help thanks 😊

Don’t forget about genetic mutations that happen when having kids they become active once the child becomes a adult (generation skipping) then some only become active after the next evolutionary step (evolving) almost forgot u will need these genetic mutations to continue connecting neurons

Thanks so much bro

Should evolve when and only when your mutated kids reach adult hood, or when u have a bunch of mutated adults.. that’s the prime time to evolve. B/c then all their mutations lock in

If you want to get as far in the evolution leads as possible, then i would recommend having as few generation leads as possible, becauce it causes YOUR elders to die, and the death of elders cost you far more years of evolution than you agin from Births! But you do still need to make at least 1 generation jump before you are even able to make an evolution leap! And later on you must make at least 2! Jumps Per evolution leap!

Do you keep the blue thingy when you skip a generation or does it get empty?

I would try evolving after a century

totaly spaced on the evolving thing. these yellow neurons need to be evolved or they get lost when you advance to the next generation. evolve and advancing generations sould both be done pretty regularly.

Does neuronal growth stop growing at a certain point in every generation? I’m able to do the various growth tasks and the icon at the bottom of the screen will light up but after a certain point it stops lighting up and makes me wonder if the growth has stopped. I’m not entirely sure I only have 1 memory of noticing that it a neuron sense can still grow even if the icon doesn’t light up, but I’m not entirely show.

I haven't evolved once and I have alot unlocked. It's based on what you do and fig2out not when or how you evolve

Are you still able to go on trees in the last evolution

Oh no. I've played for about 18 hrs and never used evolve or generational skip... RIP. I'm still on year 5.

I think you get 2 reinforcements per meteor investigated.

Hello everyone!I have a problem.I had this game installed in my hdd and the mimic action(press B button twice for my gamepad)worked great.Then i unistalled the game by mistake so i reinstalled it again and now this action doesn't work at all.I unlocked of course the right tech but i haven't this command even to my left side.I tried to uninstall it and install it again but nothing.Please can you help me?

I think there’s a glitch I reinforced a neuron and when I pass generation it still dissapears

I evolve right away when I got only just one darn children. Epic gaming skillz

juts to let you know that you can have 12 point with 6 kids because its 2 reinforcement par kids

How do I pass the generation?????

HOW DO U REINFORCE

I just got my first evolution but I cant find savana rock arrow oasis

im still confused about when to evolve

how do u reinforce

still on my first playthrough 22 years have passed and i havent used evolution but im at 27% feats soo i guess im doing very good lmao still not sure if i should explore more or move the settlement or use evolution... no ideea

Does the nodes that are kept for the next generation, will they stay for the generation after the next?

What do I do when about all my dots are glowing lol

What is the game doing with losses due to "unknown causes"? So we should breed those females before they are lost to ensure population stability?

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I wish there was a full online mode, see other people's clan and how far they've come compared to you. Or even fight between clans, kidnap babies to improve your clan numbers

So one thing that has been throwing me through a loop is do i Have to finish the objectives before i evolve or should i evovle and lock in metabolism

when i pass generation i don't get bonus years from feat i have 70% help

So learn, reinforce, skip basically?

When mutations say they will be active in the next evolution should I just evolve then? Bc I feel like if I just di generations instead the mutations will be gone

I don’t know if you are still replying to comments about this game but I’ve been playing I got 6 reinforcements but I didn’t realise I had to reinforce them before I evolved and so I evolved and now all of my apes are still the same age I have 6 babies still and none of them aged up. Do you know how to fix it

Do you know what fulfillments succeeded is?

You are the only one who know to this game 🙂🙂 were are you from 🤔🤔?

Why do all the reinforcements need to be used if possible will something bad happen if u don’t use all the reinforcements

Imagine being coop. Your friend has their own clan and you have yours. Make roving gangs of apes with sharp sticks

If you take babies to the meteor you get 12 reinforcement points

What does it mean to evolve slower than science. I evolved, but I'm still the same species and in a new area.

Yes but HOW do you evolve

I’m bearly playing the game and I went to the 2nd generation and now whatever I do it doesn’t gather any neuron energy at all or do I need to have kids or how

Can you lose un used reinforcement pointswhen you skip generations?

Doesn't work I completed being able to walk on two legs farther distance reinforced it along with a few other perks skipped a generation and it started me all over and none of my apes had anything

so I evolved the first time and it was 992 thousand years and I'm 92k years ahead of science? is that a good thing haha

All my apes keep dying 😁

Did any one catch his out-tro.

I have 20 reinforcement and 5 little boys

is Seth rogen playing ?! whaaaat ?? dude you sound the sameeeeeeeee :)))

I keep losing my people😭

Can you keep having baby's and skipping generations to keep getting more and more genetic mutations or should i skip a generation then evolve skip generation then evolve...

can someone make a tutorial on how to skip the cutscenes god damn

Yea but why am I stuck at 5 years no matter what I do and how I evolv the years don’t go up

Bruh how did I have 12 reinforcement points

how do i generation skip

I love the concept of this game but the layout of the tech tree is a jumbled fucking mess

Bro I lost the game once and I beat the whole gammmee😂🎉🎉

Hope you dont spoil the whole game, If not thank you!