Altruism is a type of behavior in which an animal sacrifices its own interest for that of another animal or group of animals.
The text and the lecture offer two opposing views about altruism in animals. While the reading passage lists reasons to substantiate the existence of altruistic attributes among animals, the professor repudiates all the reasons given based on a recent research, elucidating that some times reexamining a scientific belief leads to scientists' opinion alteration.
First, the article posits that the meerkat which guards others will remain hungry, and this is an example of sacrifice. On the contrary, the lecturer asserts that a new study, which scrutinized meerkats closely, manifests that a meerkat will stand as a guard only after eating enough food. Thus, a guard meerkat is not abiding hunger to protect other members, thereby not showing an altruistic behaviour.
Next, the author claims that a guard meerkat, by calling other members, in the case of an approaching predator, jeopardizes its own life. In contrast, the professor refutes this assertion, and states that the guard animal has the outstanding opportunity to escape before other members of the group because it realizes the predator's presence prior to them.
Additionally, when a guard alarms the members, they will assemble, and thereby distract the predator's attention from the guard itself, and thus, the guard can flee to the burrows immediately, leaving other members alone with the predator. For these reasons assuming prey alarming as an altruistic behaviour is not precise.
Finally, the passage declares that some human behaviours like sharing foods or donating body organs are illustrations of altruism. On the other hand, the lecturer counters this argument by explaining that a human being who donates a part of his body, such as a kidney, does not perform so without any reward. According to the professor, the appreciation that the donor receives from the receiver and the society should be taken in account as some kinds of remuneration. Therefore, a human being cannot be counted as an accurate instance of animals which show altruistic behaviours.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, so, therefore, thus, while, in contrast, such as, on the contrary, on the other hand
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 : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1715.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 321.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34267912773 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78714717256 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 145.348785872 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.610591900312 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 523.8 419.366225166 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.073617696 49.2860985944 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.923076923 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6923076923 21.698381199 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.38461538462 7.06452816374 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.145320750315 0.272083759551 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0534700988685 0.0996497079465 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0436697097197 0.0662205650399 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.073806834863 0.162205337803 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0328903672627 0.0443174109184 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.89 8.42419426049 117% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 63.6247240618 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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