The wooly mammoth was a prehistoric animal that resembled an elephant and lived during the Ica Age. Some versions of the species are known to have survived until 6000 BCE. Its extinction is best explained by a combination of climate change and over hunting by predators.
The reading and the lecture are both about the factors which could have been responsible for extinction of wooly mammoth. According to the reading passage there were two main reasons which could have let to the dramatic decline in the population of mammoth. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article, by using the following evidence she posits that neither climate change nor over hunting would have led to the rapid decline in population of wooly mammoth.
To begin with, there is no evidence that the warming of climate actually affected the mammoth. The lecturer agrees that the cool environment is more friendly to the mammoth. She contends that the mammoth could have just moved to the north, where the temperature was lower. This point differs from the author’s point whereby the change in climate could detrimentally affect the ancient mammoth.
Furthermore, the professor posits that the mammoth did not have any natural predators. She weakens the author’s point by drawing a parallel between a modern lion and an ancient tiger, which was not large enough to hunt such large creatures as mammoth. This counters the author’s point according to which a saber-toothed tiger could break through thick skin of a mammoth killing it.
By the same token, ancient people could not have played their part in the extinction of the mammoth just because the mammoth was a suitable aim to fulfil for humans’ needs. The lecturer contends that ancestors could use bones, skin and meet from other preys which are easier to hunt on such as buffalos or bears. By way of contrast, this undermines the reading idea whereby humans were also responsible for over hunting the mammoth.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, furthermore, if, so, such as, to begin with, by the same token
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1415.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 282.0 270.72406181 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01773049645 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09790868904 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47182452921 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.507092198582 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 421.2 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.9812042456 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.846153846 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6923076923 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188800193809 0.272083759551 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0753252334623 0.0996497079465 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.032434370526 0.0662205650399 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124599578996 0.162205337803 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0202739714214 0.0443174109184 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.