Altruism is a type of behavior in which an animal sacrifices its own interest for that of another animal or group of animals. Altruism is the opposite of selfishness; individuals performing altruistic acts gain nothing for themselves.
Examples of altruism around, both among humans and among other mammals. Unselfish acts among humans range from the sharing of food with strangers to the donation of body organs to family members, and even to strangers. Such acts as altruistic in that they benefit another, yet provide little rewards to the one performing the act.
In fact, many species of animals appear willing to sacrifice food, or even their life, to assist other members of their group. The meerkat, which is a mammal that dwells in burrows in grassland areas of Africa, is often cited as an example. In groups of meerkats, an individual acts as a sentinel, standing guard and looking out for predators while the others hunt for food or eat food they group, it gives an alarm cry alerting the other meerkats to run seek shelter. By standing guard, the essential meerkat gains nothing- it goes without food while the others eat, and it places itself in grave danger. After it issues an alarm, it has to flee alone, which might make it more at risk to a predator, since animals essential behavior helps ensure the survival of other members of the meerkat's group.
The article states that altruism is one type of behavior in which human or animal give sacrifices without any own benefits. That sacrificing act called an altruistic act. The article also provides three reasons to support this idea. However, the professor explains that altruistic acts are not performed without own benefits and refutes each of the author's reasons.
First, the reading provides example of meerkat which is a mammal that perform altruistic act by standing as guard and looking for the predators when other meerkats are eating their food. The author has mentioned that meerkat who is guarding is an empty stomach while other meerkats get food. Thus, it considers as the altruist act. However, the professor refutes by arguing that the researcher found in one of the studies that meerkat who stand as guard eats before guarding other meerkats. So, this act is not considered without benefits.
Second, the article points out that after the alarm meerkat who guard at more risk of getting caught by predator compare to the other meerkat because it has made alarm sound which gets the predator's attention very easily. On the other side, the professor provides a contrary statement that the research study concluded that the meerkat who guards the stand beside the bur hole. So, guard meerkat can easily escape in the bur hole. Moreover, the article state that guards meerkat as a risk because of the alarm sound, whereas, the professor says that guard meerkat draws the predator's attention to the other meerkat by making the alarm sound.
Third, the author explained that humans also perform altruistic acts by providing organs to relatives or strangers. On the contrary, the lecturer says that human donate an organ to other is not altruistic act because the donor receives the appreciation and approval from the other and society. Also, they increase their self-worth by donating an organ and sometimes this type of non-materialistic reward is more worthful for people.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 190, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'predators'' or 'predator's'?
Suggestion: predators'; predator's
... it has made alarm sound which gets the predators attention very easily. On the other sid...
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Line 9, column 575, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'predators'' or 'predator's'?
Suggestion: predators'; predator's
...essor says that guard meerkat draws the predators attention to the other meerkat by makin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, look, moreover, second, so, third, thus, whereas, while, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 12.0772626932 182% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1677.0 1373.03311258 122% => OK
No of words: 325.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48691534416 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489230769231 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 502.2 419.366225166 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.3804534391 49.2860985944 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.8125 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3125 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.125 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.153940032111 0.272083759551 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0652333743892 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0733034572095 0.0662205650399 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118394348148 0.162205337803 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0931972939297 0.0443174109184 210% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
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: 12.65 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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