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Just so there's no confusion (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

The proto-chicken was a mutant Red Junglefowl. Just like a proto-dog was a mutant wolf.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You do not get a Red Junglefowl laying a 2000s definition of a chicken egg. You get a Red Junglefowl laying an egg with a mutation that that "Red Junglefowl" will pass on.

    Every generation the Red Junglefowl becomes closer to the 2000s definition of a chicken.

    It wasn't a "mutant" in the sense that one Red Junglefowl was born to create the chicken egg what we know as a 2000s definition of a chicken.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, there's never a hard dividing line between a species and its immediate predecessor. Merely a gradual chain of mutations that eventually results in distinct populations. If those populations can't successfully interbreed even if transported to meet, they're different species. The definitions for asexually reproducing organisms are even more fuzzy. This concept that taxonomy doesn't have fixed divisions confuses a lot of anti-evolutionists.

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