Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg?
TheFogan@programming.dev 4 days agoAccurate, but of course the real thing to note is in evolution, our lines and definitions of what a chicken is… is especially undefined. we just draw the line and call a particular creature a chicken… which is significantly more similar to the proto-chicken than a modern chicken is.
Auntievenim@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Dinosaurs laid eggs, and chickens did not come before dinosaurs. Eggs came first.
Its that simple
TheFogan@programming.dev 4 days ago
ah yeah quite true, if the question is egg’s in general, then yeah, eggs existed before the first land walking creatures. I always assumed the question is meaning a chicken egg specifically. Of which the answer is still the same as, as assuming we as humans pick an arbitrary line to draw for being a chicken. Obviously before the first chicken exists, a creature just short of meeting the qualifications for a chicken, would have layed an egg of what we define as a chicken, to create the first “chicken”.
Auntievenim@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I always struggled with the question until I thought about the question itself. Once I realized I was being asked: what came first? The answer became clear
The question is an illusion, there is no chicken
treadful@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Another way to frame this is that, you can’t just magically create a singular being that’s a new species because it wouldn’t have anything to breed with. So it’s a long term gradual change of a complete population into what we know as a chicken today.