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Richard Owen, an Uncommon card
Sir Richard Owen was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 71
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 70,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
- Owen produced a vast array of scientific work, but is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria.
- An outspoken critic of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, Owen agreed with Darwin that evolution occurred but thought it was more complex than outlined in Darwin's On the Origin of Species.[page range too broad] Owen's approach to evolution can be considered to have anticipated the issues that have gained greater attention with the recent emergence of evolutionary…
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Richard Owen article was read about 70,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 71: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Richard Owen (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Lock & Whitfield, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.