Please help me with these two tasks..

dogs is better and probably lizards.

you did not attach the discourse, but i assume it to be the discourse on the origin and basis of inequality among men (the original titile in french is: "discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes"), also know as "second discourse". in this discourse, jean-jacques rousseau emphasizes that private property is the basis of all inequalities.

therefore, what enabled the old regime to maintain as long as it did was private property.

equal distribution i think.

some inherited genetic mutations can be good for the offspring, so the answer is different genetic mutations cause many forms of cancer.