Comment on Chicken vs Egg

• Jako301@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not really, it still doesn’t answer the question.

  Is the first chicken egg the one the chicken hatched from or the first egg a chicken laid.

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  • scifun@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What came first? Chicken or egg?

    It doesn’t say if the question is about “chicken egg” but only egg

    Otherwise the question would be:

    What came first? Chicken or Chile chicken egg?

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not-quite-a-chicken laid an egg containing a definitely-chicken. Actual chicken egg was first.

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We are so zoomed in evolution at this point that the arbitrary distinction between what is a chicken and what not doesn’t make any sense anymore. Evolution does some jumps, but it is still hard to actually draw the line where a nearly-chicken has not been a chicken yet. Maybe someone could fill in my mental gap in here for me, but hasn’t Richard Dawkins given the example of some animal (possibly a rabbit?) that is traced back in evolution and since you cannot draw the line when it hasn’t been that animal it is rabbits all the way down?

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      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, the fossil record and dna analysis is such a gradient, any lines we draw are arbitrary. To be fair, those lines were always for our own convenience, in much the same way it’s useful for print designers to specify Pantone 032, but if most people look at the full colour chart they couldn’t even tell you where ‘red’ becomes ‘orange’.

        It’s definitely rabbits (or turtles) all the way down.

        We’re prokaryotes, and vertebrates, and mammals, and from there some people get bent. Are we apes? Genus homo? Where must we draw the line to ensure we’re not actually animals like other living things and were divinely inspired special creations?

        I like simplicity. Life is a beautiful prismatic projection and it doesn’t matter that much what our Pantone swatch turns out to be.

        (Sorry, /mini rant)

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