Summarize the main points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they opposes specific points made in the reading passage.

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Summarize the main points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they opposes specific points made in the reading passage.

Altruism is a behavior in which humans and animals sacrifice their own interest for others. Both, the reading and the lecture are discussing about Altruism. According to the reading, most animals and people show altruistic behaviour when they help other group members and provides three reasons of support.However, the professor contradicts this and refutes each of its claims.

First of all, the professor explains that the new study about meerkats behavior in which one guard for standing to alarm for the predator shows that upon closer look researchers found out that the standing guard meerkat had already ate before guarding the other members of its group. So the claim from the reading that standing guard had no food while guarding other group members for predators shows its altruistic behavior is not right..

Second, the professor mentioned that new studies about meerkat behavior also proved that standing guard always stand near the burrow. Therefore, when the guard creates alarm it gives the signal to its group either move together-together or else to move away from the caller, which actually increases its own survival chances because the predator would be distracted towards the group and guard meerkat would easily move into the burrow. This opposes the reading which claims that alarm of standing guard meerkat for predator will decrease its own chance of survival.

Finally, the professor explains that good behavior of humans among each other is actually for their own satisfaction. He added that for instance a person who donates a kidney to his relative or a stranger will gain appreciation and rewards from the society. May be this reward is very valuable for that person and the act of donating kidney is not for the help of other person but gaining that reward for his own self-respect. This refutes reading which states that human behavior of donation their organs and sharing food shows altruistic behavior.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 307, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: However
...s and provides three reasons of support.However, the professor contradicts this and ref...
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Line 3, column 234, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'eaten'.
Suggestion: eaten
... the standing guard meerkat had already ate before guarding the other members of it...
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Line 3, column 335, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...aim from the reading that standing guard had no food while guarding other group m...
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Line 3, column 440, Rule ID: DOUBLE_PUNCTUATION
Message: Two consecutive dots
Suggestion: .
...ows its altruistic behavior is not right.. Second, the professor mentioned tha...
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Line 7, column 146, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...satisfaction. He added that for instance a person who donates a kidney to his rel...
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Line 7, column 265, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (May) must be used with a third-person verb: 'is'.
Suggestion: is
...ation and rewards from the society. May be this reward is very valuable for that ...
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Line 7, column 279, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rds from the society. May be this reward is very valuable for that person and the...
^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, may, second, so, therefore, while, for instance, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1637.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 315.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19682539683 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52138248081 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492063492063 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 473.4 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 69.729835795 49.2860985944 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.416666667 110.228320801 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.25 21.698381199 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.75 7.06452816374 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.0438243161655 0.272083759551 16% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0221427264278 0.0996497079465 22% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0174929910442 0.0662205650399 26% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.029946855207 0.162205337803 18% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00441324071581 0.0443174109184 10% => 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: 16.2 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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