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 just move to the north. 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 animal for humans’ needs. The lecturer contends that ancestors could use the bones, skin and meet from other preys which are more easy to hunt on such as buffalos or bears. This undermines the idea provided in the article, according to which humans are also responsible for over hunting the mammoth.
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 : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => 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: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1388.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 277.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01083032491 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46489248821 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.498194945848 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 414.0 419.366225166 99% => 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: 40.3456955316 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.769230769 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3076923077 21.698381199 98% => 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 : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.186379829125 0.272083759551 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0737341887362 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0369209006592 0.0662205650399 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121724656116 0.162205337803 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0237904175352 0.0443174109184 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => 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: 11.78 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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