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Natural selection, a Rare card
Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in the relative fitness endowed on them by their own particular complement of observable characteristics.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 88
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 200,000
Ranked #906 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Natural selection quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Natural selection card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is a key law or mechanism of evolution which changes the heritable traits characteristic of a ______ or species over generations.
Answer
population. It is a key law or mechanism of evolution which changes the heritable traits characteristic of a population or species over generations. From the Natural selection article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Rattlesnake. Rattlesnake 310,000 · Natural selection 200,000 · Quanzhou 99,000 · American lobster 79,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is a key law or mechanism of evolution which changes the heritable traits characteristic of a population or species over generations.
- Charles Darwin popularised the term "natural selection", contrasting it with artificial selection, which is intentional, whereas natural selection is not.
- For Darwin, natural selection was a law or principle which resulted from three different kinds of process: inheritance, including the transmission of heritable material from parent to offspring and its development in the offspring, variation, which partly resulted from an organism's own agency, and the struggle for existence, which included both competition between organisms and cooperation or…
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Natural selection article was read about 200,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 88 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Natural selection (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Elembis, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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