Using the example of the pronghorn and lion, explain the concept of a relict behavior.

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Using the example of the pronghorn and lion, explain the concept of a relict behavior.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 646.0 592.248995984 109% => OK
No of words: 179.0 155.574297189 115% => OK
Chars per words: 3.60893854749 3.80514564318 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65774358864 3.525876923 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.61457346586 1.79077849142 90% => OK
Unique words: 104.0 93.7148594378 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.581005586592 0.604071249207 96% => OK
Syllable count: 202.5 185.844578313 109% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0572662119716 0.0650381309087 88% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 59.6666666667 68.503853103 87% => OK
STD paragraph length: 48.5958388708 21.3332995233 228% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 19.6233333333 25.9943957902 75% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 15.6968623899 7.84667146824 200% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 42.0642570281 81% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.26470588235 4.02192344571 131% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.21697426745 3.1217529195 135% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.66676470588 1.45093177766 115% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.1550190235 0.99851816184 116% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 36.0 39.0421686747 92% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.9 7.12997991968 97% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.191666666667 0.185688545393 103% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.161718204843 0.155154303396 104% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.37 47.1480722892 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.270223463687 0.305395592593 88% => OK
STD word duration: 0.151506237522 0.189427763521 80% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 7.94979919679 101% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.62 6.2937751004 89% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.42 3.39508032129 42% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.87 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.981166666667 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.611516901648 0.656000678711 93% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.04059792764 2.60215298798 117% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.76660438254 1.56821927147 113% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.15009303287 1.99336655568 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.331199709497 0.317803793328 104% => OK

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.