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 reading and lecture is about selling and purchase of the fossils. The reading says that many commercial and private collectors plays a detrimental role in the field of discovery during marketing-- and it includes the rare and valuable fossils. However, the speaker refutes these scenario is not the actual case, and argues that, unless the fossils doesn't reach to the hands of a scientist, it will not be verified, and refutes each of the reasons claimed by the authors.
First, the reading claims that due to haphazard scenario of selling and buying of these fossils, it would not enable to all the public to view the fossils. The speaker refutes the claim that, due to the easy process of marketing and transaction, it would create easy to buy and reach among the low level of people.
Second, the article posits that these scenario would leads to less reach within the scientist, and leads to less and less discovery. He also claims that, the technical institutions, museums and scientists would not able to reach among the millions of fossil buyer. However, the speaker argues that to be any fossil as a authentic, it should transmitted and verified by the scientist. Unless, scientists doesn't gives it detail, it has less value.
Third, the author feels that on passing of fossils by collectors, some evidence can be deteriorate, and gives the evidences of nest-building dinosaurs called ovitaptors,and it's indications to find other fossils, which collectors doesn't know. However, the speaker opposes the points that many commercial fossils which were damaged during the handling procedure remains undiscovered, and it would not be a great case
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, so, then, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 7.30242825607 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1388.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 272.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10294117647 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7005397024 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 403.2 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.51434878587 396% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.5476924984 49.2860985944 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.181818182 110.228320801 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7272727273 21.698381199 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.45454545455 7.06452816374 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 4.19205298013 215% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.126646104178 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0541358868277 0.0996497079465 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0534992529408 0.0662205650399 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.083558185272 0.162205337803 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0425604001053 0.0443174109184 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.