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In reply to the discussion: Neil deGrasse Tyson has settled it once and for all .....Which came first the Chicken or the Egg? [View all]Chathamization
(1,638 posts)53. That doesn't seem right.
The egg exists before fertilization so you'd have to either assume that all the mutations needed to make it a chicken occurred in the egg or that the act of fertilization turned the egg from a red junglefowl egg into a chicken egg (though it'd seem like the act of fertilization is about when you'd start separating the chicken from the egg). Someone could argue that the answer is a chicken, hatched from a red junglefowl egg, and it's probably a better answer.
Of course, as others have pointed out the real answer is that this is arguing nomenclature where no firm line of separation exists.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson has settled it once and for all .....Which came first the Chicken or the Egg? [View all]
Playinghardball
Aug 2014
OP
Looks to me like you are backing up his theory. If a chicken evolved from something
rhett o rick
Aug 2014
#13
So you're saying there could be several generations of "almost chicken" between chicken
tclambert
Aug 2014
#48
The Creator must have created him/her/itself. Which implies the Creator is a time traveler.
tclambert
Aug 2014
#46