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Topic	the egg definitively came first btw
adjl 07/05/23 7:34:24 AM #6:	FrozenBananas posted... The egg needs to be laid by a chicken, though. So the chicken has to come first The creature that laid the egg that hatched into the first chicken would have been the chicken's immediate evolutionary precursor. This proto-chicken would not have itself been a chicken, therefore the egg came first. Less pedantically, if we look more broadly at the overall evolution of egg-laying, the "chicken" came first. The creature that laid the first thing that we would conclusively call an egg would have had a new mutation that allowed it to encase its offspring in a protective membrane, but because its parent did not possess this mutation, it would not have hatched from an egg. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:974635492] in the egg de... [t:80499665]...</cite> <quote>FrozenBananas posted... </cite><quote>The egg needs to be laid by a chicken, though. So the chicken has to come first</quote>The creature that laid the egg that hatched into the first chicken would have been the chicken's immediate evolutionary precursor. This proto-chicken would not have itself been a chicken, therefore the egg came first.Less pedantically, if we look more broadly at the overall evolution of egg-laying, the "chicken" came first. The creature that laid the first thing that we would conclusively call an egg would have had a new mutation that allowed it to encase its offspring in a protective membrane, but because its parent did not possess this mutation, it would not have hatched from an egg. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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