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Chicken-and-Egg Mystery Finally Cracked


So where did the chicken come from?

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Tensor wrote:

So where did the chicken come from?

Either the flying spaghetti monster or evolution, take your pick.


Tensor wrote:

So where did the chicken come from?

An egg, obviously.


high G wrote:
Tensor wrote:

So where did the chicken come from?

An egg, obviously.

Where did the egg come from?


Tensor wrote:

So where did the chicken come from?

Across the road.

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Tensor wrote:
high G wrote:
Tensor wrote:

So where did the chicken come from?

An egg, obviously.

Where did the egg come from? Why an egg! Didn't you read the Foxnews article??

I think it was a reprint from The Sun.

Liberty's Edge

Good ol' Fox news. Always asking the hard questions.


Tensor wrote:
high G wrote:
Tensor wrote:

So where did the chicken come from?

An egg, obviously.

Where did the egg come from?

Why a chicken of course! Didn't you read the Foxnews article??


Xpltvdeleted wrote:
Tensor wrote:
high G wrote:
Tensor wrote:

So where did the chicken come from?

An egg, obviously.

Where did the egg come from? Why an egg! Didn't you read the Foxnews article??

I think it was a reprint from The Sun.

Huh. I could've sworn it was The Arizona Republic.


high G wrote:
Tensor wrote:
high G wrote:
Tensor wrote:

So where did the chicken come from?

An egg, obviously.

Where did the egg come from?

Why a chicken of course! Didn't you read the Foxnews article??

Ok, but where did the chicken come from?


Xpltvdeleted wrote:
I think it was a reprint from The Sun.

Now, I do believe both the egg and the chicken came from the Sun.


I thought we had figured this out already. Because of a slight genetic change, a chicken-like ancestor produced chicken eggs, what developed into chickens.


jocundthejolly wrote:
I thought we had figured this out already. Because of a slight genetic change, a chicken-like ancestor produced chicken eggs, what developed into chickens.

Where did the "chicken-like ancestor" come from?


Tensor wrote:
jocundthejolly wrote:
I thought we had figured this out already. Because of a slight genetic change, a chicken-like ancestor produced chicken eggs, what developed into chickens.
Where did the "chicken-like ancestor" come from?

A different egg. ;)


jocundthejolly wrote:
I thought we had figured this out already. Because of a slight genetic change, a chicken-like ancestor produced chicken eggs, what developed into chickens.

Agreed - which essentially makes the article above false. The egg has to come first, laid by something that was not quite a chicken.


I want a new egg.


Tensor wrote:
jocundthejolly wrote:
I thought we had figured this out already. Because of a slight genetic change, a chicken-like ancestor produced chicken eggs, what developed into chickens.

Where did the "chicken-like ancestor" come from?

A slightly different chicken-like ancestor. That is how evolution works. Something changes in the environment or needs of the critter and it's body slowly adapts. So it's decedents are passes the gene. At some point those changes make it's children different then it was.

So to me it's always been clear the Egg came first in the chicken, but if ya go back far enough you'll have something that did not lay eggs.

RPG Superstar 2012

Why are people picking on Nicole Eggert?


Jeremy Mac Donald wrote:
jocundthejolly wrote:
I thought we had figured this out already. Because of a slight genetic change, a chicken-like ancestor produced chicken eggs, what developed into chickens.
Agreed - which essentially makes the article above false. The egg has to come first, laid by something that was not quite a chicken.

I'm broke and unemployed, but never let it be said that a BS in Evolutionary Anthropology doesn't come in handy in a pinch.


taig wrote:
Why are people picking on Nicole Eggert?

Bacause she was hot until she got a boob job.


seekerofshadowlight wrote:
Tensor wrote:
jocundthejolly wrote:
I thought we had figured this out already. Because of a slight genetic change, a chicken-like ancestor produced chicken eggs, what developed into chickens.

Where did the "chicken-like ancestor" come from?

A slightly different chicken-like ancestor. That is how evolution works. Something changes in the environment or needs of the critter and it's body slowly adapts. So it's decedents are passes the gene. At some point those changes make it's children different then it was.

So to me it's always been clear the Egg came first in the chicken, but if ya go back far enough you'll have something that did not lay eggs.

You missed my implied Gag-Question: "How did it all begin?" I was trying to be funny...

sigh.


Tensor wrote:
Ok, but where did the chicken come from?

Because Tom Petty is famous!


Fox News wrote:
Scientists cracked the puzzle after discovering that the formation of eggs is possible only thanks to a protein found in chicken's ovaries. That means eggs have to be formed in chickens first.

This makes absolutely no sense. There are plenty of animals other than chickens that lay eggs without using a chicken ovary as a prop.

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Jeremy Mac Donald wrote:
jocundthejolly wrote:
I thought we had figured this out already. Because of a slight genetic change, a chicken-like ancestor produced chicken eggs, what developed into chickens.
Agreed - which essentially makes the article above false. The egg has to come first, laid by something that was not quite a chicken.

Look, something had to get laid before the egg did.


houstonderek wrote:
Jeremy Mac Donald wrote:
jocundthejolly wrote:
I thought we had figured this out already. Because of a slight genetic change, a chicken-like ancestor produced chicken eggs, what developed into chickens.
Agreed - which essentially makes the article above false. The egg has to come first, laid by something that was not quite a chicken.
Look, something had to get laid before the egg did.

lol V funny.


I figured it was only a matter of time before biologist Jerry Coyne picked this up:
Godawful Science Reporting.

Biologist PZ Myers sums up the article as "Bleh," describing the reporting as "terrible":
Chickens, eggs, this is no way to report on science


Ashe Ravenheart wrote:
Good ol' Fox news. Always asking the hard questions.

Don't you mean the 'hard boiled questions'?


Ashe Ravenheart wrote:
Good ol' Fox news. Always asking the hard questions.

MSNBC has the exact same article -- I didn't check them side-by-side, but they seem verbatim, from what I recall.

Idiots.


seekerofshadowlight wrote:
Tensor wrote:
jocundthejolly wrote:
I thought we had figured this out already. Because of a slight genetic change, a chicken-like ancestor produced chicken eggs, what developed into chickens.

Where did the "chicken-like ancestor" come from?

A slightly different chicken-like ancestor. That is how evolution works. Something changes in the environment or needs of the critter and it's body slowly adapts. So it's decedents are passes the gene. At some point those changes make it's children different then it was.

So to me it's always been clear the Egg came first in the chicken, but if ya go back far enough you'll have something that did not lay eggs.

Reminds me that mammary glands are actually modified sweat glands. Very good, nice, and good and nice good modified sweat glands.


The chicken embryo is formed before the shell, so the chicken comes first.

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CourtFool wrote:
Ashe Ravenheart wrote:
Good ol' Fox news. Always asking the hard questions.
Don't you mean the 'hard boiled questions'?

Knew I should have gotten here sooner.

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