Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg?
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 week agoAnd what I’m telling you is that there was no first chicken, just like there was no first Spanish speaker. Species don’t evolve that way.
Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg?
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 week agoAnd what I’m telling you is that there was no first chicken, just like there was no first Spanish speaker. Species don’t evolve that way.
guy@piefed.social 1 week ago
Doesn't the saying go 'there's a first for everything'?
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Just because it’s a saying doesn’t mean it’s true for everything. Every child is the same species as its parent.
guy@piefed.social 1 week ago
Sure, and since that means that there can be no new species unless they magically appear, there is only one species on this planet. Just very.. varying
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Ok, let me put it another way. Green and red are clearly different colors, right? But if you make a gradient where the green smoothly transitions to the red, there isn’t one single point where it changes from “green” to “red”. This doesn’t mean that the two colors on the ends aren’t completely different colors, it means that when you look at every pixel, they’re almost exactly the same color as the pixel next to them.
Different species exist. Speciation is a thing. I’m not claiming otherwise. But creatures don’t birth a species other than their own. It takes many many many generations over eons of time for a population to speciate. Speciation is something that happens to populations, not individuals.