Private collectors have been selling and buying fossils, the petrified remains of ancient organisms, ever since the eighteenth century. In recent years, however, the sale of fossils, particularly of dinosaurs and other large vertebrates, has grown into a big business. Rare and important fossils are now being sold to private ownership for millions of dollars. This is an unfortunate development for both scientists and the general public.
The public suffers because fossils that would otherwise be donated to museums where everyone can see them are sold to private collectors who do not allow the public to view their collections. Making it harder for the public to see fossils can lead to a decline in public interest in fossils, which would be a pity.
More importantly, scientists are likely to lose access to some of the most important fossils and thereby miss out on potentially crucial discoveries about extinct life forms. Wealthy fossil buyers with a desire to own the rarest and most important fossils can spend virtually limitless amounts of money to acquire them. Scientists and the museums and universities they work for often cannot compete successfully for fossils against millionaire fossil buyers.
Moreover, commercial fossil collectors often destroy valuable scientific evidence associated with the fossils they unearth. Most commercial fossil collectors are untrained or uninterested in carrying out the careful field work and documentation that reveal the most about animal life in the past. For example, scientists have learned about the biology of nest-building dinosaurs called oviraptors by carefully observing the exact position of oviraptor fossils in the ground and the presence of other fossils in the immediate surroundings. Commercial fossil collectors typically pay no attention to how fossils lie in the ground or to the smaller fossils that may surround bigger ones.
Both, the reading and the lecture, talk about the increasement that has experimented the number of fossils that have been sold to private buyers. The reading claims that it is detrimental for scientists and the general public, whereas the lecuter, even when acept that exist some negatives consequences, says that the problem is overdimentioned. She refute each reason presented, casting doubts in the author's beliefs.
Firstly, the lecture points out that the fossils selled to private owners are out of the sight of the public which undermine the interest on they. However the professor disproves this point stating that exist innumerable presentation of this remains that could be appreciated by the general public. Moreove, this kind of events are prepared in libraries and schools to falicitate the access to them.
Secondly, the text argue that due to fossils are now privates pieces, the scientists do not have access to them, and consequently, difficult valuable discoveries. Nothwithstanding, the lecturer mention that, this argument is not realistic, becuase people who are willing to pay so much money for a piece, it is sure that are identify with the science. Therefore, they will ensure that specialist study the pieces, giving access to the scientis community to them. IN this way, any new data could be recolected by the science.
Finally, the reading remarks that owing to this practice, many scientific evidence is lose when the fossil are removed of the pace where is discovered. Nonetheless, the orator highlights the weakness of this point noticing that thanks to this a elevated number of fossils have been found and, even with that drawback, it is better to count with them and the information that they offer than to have it underground undiscovered.
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 90
- Private collectors have been selling and buying fossils, the petrified remains of ancient organisms, ever since the eighteenth century. In recent years, however, the sale of fossils, particularly of dinosaurs and other large vertebrates, has grown into a 3
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, finally, first, firstly, however, if, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, whereas, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1521.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 287.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29965156794 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84763438628 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578397212544 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 454.5 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.9975197863 49.2860985944 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.75 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9166666667 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.5 7.06452816374 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 4.19205298013 286% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.058231416234 0.272083759551 21% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0208044652571 0.0996497079465 21% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0274491838348 0.0662205650399 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0365259854712 0.162205337803 23% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00817176286468 0.0443174109184 18% => 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: 15.5 13.3589403974 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.76 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.12 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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