Yup, and the egg from which the first chicken was hatched was laid by a very close precursor of a chicken that was not yet quite a chicken herself, unlike her chick.
Reality is a bit more complicated than that. With respects to the species concept, what matters are traits at the population level, not at the individual level.
Think about it this way. If such a thing did exist, the first of its species, the very first true chicken then there would be no other true chicken for it to breed with. The only thing it’s making babies with is something of a different species (like the ancestral precursor chicken species), and thus all the babies would be hybrids by definition.
Granted, all of this is irrelevant, since from a strictly pedantic perspective, the egg obviously came first because egg laying was ancient by the time birds existed.
I don’t see why today’s chicken would necessarily be more stable than a chicken precursor. If you look at the way chickens changed in the last few decades, you’ll probably find that it happened much faster than ever before, making them less stable, I’d argue.
Yup, and the egg from which the first chicken was hatched was laid by a very close precursor of a chicken that was not yet quite a chicken herself, unlike her chick.
Reality is a bit more complicated than that. With respects to the species concept, what matters are traits at the population level, not at the individual level.
Think about it this way. If such a thing did exist, the first of its species, the very first true chicken then there would be no other true chicken for it to breed with. The only thing it’s making babies with is something of a different species (like the ancestral precursor chicken species), and thus all the babies would be hybrids by definition.
Granted, all of this is irrelevant, since from a strictly pedantic perspective, the egg obviously came first because egg laying was ancient by the time birds existed.
Are you telling me X-Men is a lie?
Probably took millionaires of years. Alot of dead chicks, different versions and finally the stable version we see today.
I don’t see why today’s chicken would necessarily be more stable than a chicken precursor. If you look at the way chickens changed in the last few decades, you’ll probably find that it happened much faster than ever before, making them less stable, I’d argue.
Had no real idea chickens have changed over the last few decades. Unless you count the shitty ass conditions mass farming has put chickens through.
Well, they’ve been selectively bred over thousands of years, but mass farming has really sped it up.
https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/how-chickens-tripled-in-size/
Undoubtedly.