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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, a Common card
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition".
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 112
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 112 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was a ______ of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories.
Answer
colleague. He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories. From the Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire article on Wikipedia.
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Answer
Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei. Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei 70 · Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 64 · History of fertilizer 61 · Emperor angelfish 55 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories.
- Geoffroy's scientific views had a transcendental flavor and were similar to those of German morphologists like Lorenz Oken.
- He believed in the underlying unity of organismal design, and the possibility of the transmutation of species in time, amassing evidence for his claims through research in comparative anatomy, paleontology, and embryology.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ambroise Tardieu, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
