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Post by Alonso on Apr 13, 2011 17:56:27 GMT
???I say it was the chicken and it evolved to make eggs. If evolution is something it may have evolved to lay eggs rather than babies due to the fact that you can lay more eggs than babies normally. It is also easier to protect. Tell me what you think.
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Post by Qwerty on Apr 13, 2011 22:33:36 GMT
A species is defined by DNA. The DNA of an egg stays the same when it turns into a chicken, not so when the chicken lays the egg (since it's mixed). As such, the egg came first. Birds were laying eggs long before the chicken came along.
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Post by priok on Apr 13, 2011 23:13:51 GMT
the egg. fish have eggs
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Post by GloveParty on Apr 14, 2011 0:11:32 GMT
The egg fore the same reason as Qwerty- Another bird evolving towards chickens laid an egg. Due to mutation or another evolutionary reason, the egg hatched as a bird closer to chickens and so on until a chicken was laid.
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Post by FoxtrotZero on Apr 16, 2011 6:45:21 GMT
Just want to point out.
I believe 'chicken and the egg' is flawed, because while I see what you MEAN, chicken eggs are actually single-celled organisms.
That throws off my arguement with the metaphor.
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Post by Qwerty on Apr 16, 2011 14:56:39 GMT
Not really. They're developing chicken fetuses inside a organic capsule full of nutrients, but not single-celled.
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Post by Alonso on Apr 17, 2011 14:31:41 GMT
Well I think it is like life. What was first the baby or the parent. You need to be a baby to grow up but how is a baby created. its the same thing as the chicken or the egg exept it is humans.
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Post by GGoodie on Apr 17, 2011 16:15:10 GMT
Did you even read Qwerty's post? The fetus came first.
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Post by Alonso on Apr 17, 2011 16:23:55 GMT
I did. I'm just trying to compare it to life in general.
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Post by GloveParty on Apr 18, 2011 16:03:27 GMT
No difference. We evolved from apes. Kinda.
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Post by Qwerty on Apr 18, 2011 22:32:27 GMT
Not apes, a relative of the chimpanzee. We're more cousins than anything.
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Post by GGoodie on Apr 19, 2011 1:21:50 GMT
Not apes, a relative of the chimpanzee. We're more cousins than anything. This. +1 Karma for twice demonstrating a good knowledge of biology! ;D |
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