The woolly mammoth was a prehistoric animal that resembled an elephant and lived during the Ice Age. Some versions of the species are known to have survived until 6000 BCE, although most became extinct around 12000 BCE. Its extinction is best explained by a combination of climate change and over hunting by predators.
The woolly mammoth was well-adapted to the frigid, icy climate of the Ice Age, but as the period of cold concluded and the planet started to become warmer, the environment became unfriendly to woolly mammoths. The hair that kept them insulated against icy weather was approximately fifty centimeters long. Once the climate became warmer, however, this adaptation undoubtedly created serious problems for these animals and caused their populations to dwindle considerably.
Furthermore, during this climate change, predators like the saber-toothed tiger continued to hunt the mammoth. Saber-toothed tigers were roughly the size of lions and had twenty-centimeter-long teeth, allowing them to pierce through the fat of woolly mammoths effortlessly. Saber-toothed tigers also hunted in packs, offering them an important hunting advantage over the woolly mammoths. It is likely that saber-toothed tigers had a significant role in the woolly mammoth's extinction.
Finally, the woolly mammoth was a desirable animal to hunt for many wandering human tribes. Nearly all parts of woolly mammoths could be used by humans, making it a popular target for tribes-the mammoth's thick skin provided insulation against the cold, its bones could be used to create tools and the meat provided necessary protein and calories. Because woolly mammoths were so desirable, humans probably concentrated the majority of their hunting efforts on woolly mammoths alone, which dramatically diminished woolly mammoth populations and eventually led to their extinction.
According to the article, the wooly mammoth, which height near an elephant and lived during the Ice Age, became completely extinct about 6000 BCE. In this regard, the author stats tow effective reason for this extinction: the climate change and overhunting. On the contrary, the lecturer finds that arguments mentioned by the author hard to believe. I will explain the arguments stated by the author and the lecturer below.
First, it is stated in the reading that, because the climate changed into a warmer temperature and the woolly mammoth get used to living in cold temperatures so they cannot adapt to the new climate and extinct. However, the lecture questions this argument and mentioned that they could migrate into northern territories that were colder in order to cope with climate change. Therefore, this cannot be a good reason for their extinction.
Next, the reading puts forward to the idea that saber-toothed tiger, which has long teeth, during the climate change starts to hunt woolly mammoths. It was so large that had a significant role in extinction. In contrast, the lecturer refutes the role of the saber-toothed tiger. She believes that there is not sufficient evidence that proves that type of tiger was able to overhunt the woolly mammoth. It also had had a thick skin that probably that tiger cannot overcome it owning to its size.
Finally, the passage goes on to mention that humans overhunted the woolly mammoth in order to use its organs such as thick skin or its bones in various situations. While the lecture disputes this idea mentioning that there were other species like the buffaloes that humans could hunt them easier than the woolly mammoth in order to achieve those types of tools which they made by the woolly mammoth organs. So it is very problematic to accept overhunting by humans as a reason for the woolly mammoth extinction.
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also, finally, first, however, if, so, therefore, while, in contrast, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1560.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 314.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96815286624 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20951839842 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52956071901 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535031847134 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 483.3 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.9487802818 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.0 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9333333333 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.26666666667 7.06452816374 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175758746047 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0568275567483 0.0996497079465 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0822066618087 0.0662205650399 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104349558057 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.051311748302 0.0443174109184 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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