The game models the Gaia hypothesis, and one of the options available to the player is the simplified "daisy world" model. The daisies change color depending on the temperature (dark for cold and bright for hot). This is because the black daisies are more tolerant of low temperatures, but they decrease the planet's albedo and cause the planet to warm. Then they die off and are replaced by the white daisies, more tolerant of warm temperatures; inversely, these increase the planet's albedo and cause it to cool. These reactions are meant to demonstrate that the biosphere of the planet reacts as a whole to preserve itself.
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