To survive in the world requires a minimum knowledge about the rules of the life’s game. Part of these rules is a gift given by the heritage of thousands of previous generations, but we must learn many others during our lives. Through spectacular examples we will discover how evolution has been complicating the rules of the game of life. Plants and animals form the five continents will allow us to know some of the tricks that have allowed them to surpass the trials of this game; from the simple jellyfishes to the social elephants; from the scarce Sumatran rhinoceroses to the intelligent orang-utans; from the carnivorous plants to our own species: man.