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Michael considered fate at 16:38   |   Permalink   |   Post a Comment

Excuse me for a moment while I cringe..

Okay, done. Reasons behind that? A team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found what came first, the chicken or the egg:

Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.

Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.

Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.

The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.

"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."

The fact that this is even news boggles my mind. The fact that this isn't plainly obvious to some people boggles my mind. The fact that they feel they have settled this horribly mind-numbing question once and for all? Oh, just great. I can sleep at night now.