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 the lecture discuss the contribution of private fossils collectors to public observation of these items, access to scientists, and the future of these fossils. The author believes that private collection is a terrible way for fossils due to many reasons. The lecturer has a contrary view, and the speaker suggests that there are advantages and disadvantages of selling fossils to the commercial market. However, all disadvantages are exaggerated.
First of all, the author claims that collectors will become fossils more private, and many people cannot observe them. Collectors will try to keep these fossils and gloss over them. The lecturer rebuts this argument, suggesting that there are many fossils that are available on the market, and public companies can buy them without any obstacles.
Secondly, the article notes that eminent scientists and archaeologists will not receive access to these things, and it will bring many problems in the future. If the rarest and the most significant fossils will be in the commercial markets, scientists cannot estimate them. Nevertheless, this point is challenged by the lecturer, who says that the scientific community has access to the fossils firstly because only they can evaluate and calculate the correct value of these fossils.
The third aspect of the debate is careful attention from collectors to the fossils. The article, on the one hand, establishes that private collectors can destroy these fossils or underestimate the total validity of these items because they cannot see the full picture. The professor, on the other hand, posits that collectors can bring a little damage to the collections, but without their help and support, so many fossils will be undiscovered.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 272, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...le way for fossils due to many reasons. The lecturer has a contrary view, and the s...
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Line 4, column 269, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...cause they cannot see the full picture. The professor, on the other hand, posits th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, third, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1473.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 275.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35636363636 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81589349911 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527272727273 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 451.8 419.366225166 108% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.51434878587 396% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.2401433383 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.307692308 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1538461538 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.30769230769 7.06452816374 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.155455307407 0.272083759551 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0632274244927 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0333565934863 0.0662205650399 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105439840725 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0343750745621 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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.