What I mean is, the egg from which the chicken hatched, IS the chicken. As I said earlier, arguing with genetic constance we have the zygote, then egg, then chicken. All one individual. Changes in an individuals from, let's say, the egg to the chicken, don't affect the offsprings of said chicken unless the gonads are affected. So the genetic material of the chicken had to be already in the embryo in the egg. Egg that is a chicken, coming from naturally selected non-chicken parents.
I'm not sure but maybe we've just been arguing about different things. Hope I made myself clear now.
It depends. I mean I suppose that the egg could've been a chicken egg from a common ancestor. But then is it a chicken egg or is it the common ancestor's egg, meaning that it isn't a chicken egg and that therefore the chicken came before the egg? The problem is that it is unknown. Because who cares about chickens really? I'm just interested in evolution in general...
Hmm.. do you define a 'chicken egg' as an 'egg coming from a chicken'? Because I was thinking more in the line of, a chicken egg is an egg that will hatch to a chicken. Maybe that's the catch...
Hmm.. do you define a 'chicken egg' as an 'egg coming from a chicken'? Because I was thinking more in the line of, a chicken egg is an egg that will hatch to a chicken. Maybe that's the catch...
Egg it could be a mutation of an ancestor of the chicken something that couldn't survive well there forth the chicken probably populated better and gained dominance.
Definitely the egg, the chicken actually was once a prehistoric bird with razor sharp teeth. I know this because modern day scientist managed to unlock hidden recessive genes in chickens, so now a chicken has a beak and razor sharp teeth.
