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.
The article and lecture both deals with the fossils and their buying and selling structure. whilst, The author thinks that selling and buying of the fossils by private collectors have negative impact on public for specific three reasons. However, the lecturer argues each of the claims. In his opinion, it has far more benefits rather than demerits.
First of all, The writer claims that fossils being sold to private collectors would make public deprive from its exhibition which was possible for public when kept in museum. Furthermore, He states that difficulty for public to see fossils can lead to decline in public interests on fossils. In contrast, the lecturer says that fossils collected by private collectors keep them for sale, keep them in store, so that every level of people can buy it. Additionally, He claims that such availability will waxed the exposure of the fossils to public.
Secondly, The author states that selling to public collectors would make scientists loose their access to such important fossils. In top of that, he adds that this would make scientist to loose potential and crucial discoveries which could be made. However, the lecturer calls this argument to question by saying that public collectors provides value and price to fossils. To provide value to a fossils the scientific research is the most. He further remarks that the private collectors have scientist to examine and study the fossils before putting them to sell. So, there would be more study and discoveries.
Finally, author asserts that commercial fossil collector destroys the valuable scientific evidence. He adds that the commercial collector are untrained and uninterested and are not careful in field work leading to damages to the fossils. But the lecturer oppose the author and holds that instead of remaining undiscovered, it will be far better to get discovered even though some damage occurs.
Coming to end, Both author and lecturer holds conflicting views on commercial trade of fossils.
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Suggestion: Whilst
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Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'wax'
Suggestion: wax
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Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
...public collectors would make scientists loose their access to such important fossils....
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Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
... adds that this would make scientist to loose potential and crucial discoveries which...
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Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a fossil' or simply 'fossils'?
Suggestion: a fossil; fossils
...d price to fossils. To provide value to a fossils the scientific research is the most. He...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, in contrast, 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: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1696.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 323.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25077399381 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58087744947 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523219814241 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 502.2 419.366225166 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.7097810494 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.2222222222 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9444444444 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.22222222222 7.06452816374 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17499663544 0.272083759551 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0611904258693 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0588882393836 0.0662205650399 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0956990506545 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0579714008897 0.0443174109184 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.87 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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