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Svante Pääbo, an Uncommon card
Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 67
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 44,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Svante Pääbo quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Svante Pääbo card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
As one of the founders of ______, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome.
Answer
paleogenetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome. From the Svante Pääbo article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In ____, he became founding director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Answer
1990s. In 1997, he became founding director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. From the Svante Pääbo article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of sovereign states in the 2020s. List of sovereign states in the 2020s 83 · Irish round tower 76 · Svante Pääbo 73 · Courland 70 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome.
- In 1997, he became founding director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
- Since 1999, he has been an honorary professor at Leipzig University, he currently teaches molecular evolutionary biology at the university.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Svante Pääbo article was read about 44,000 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 67: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Svante Pääbo (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Duncan.Hull, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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