Genesis, take two

The Globe and Mail ^ | Nov 2, 2007 | Ann McIlroy

[Sir Gawain]

Arise chicken!

[metmom]

Jurassic Park?

[metmom]

Humor is lost on some on FR.

[freekitty]

I know. LOL But we can have fun.

[DouglasKC]

Article word count:

Might = 4
Could = 6
If = 9
May = 9
Probably = 1
Likely = 2
Should = 8
Potential = 2
Possible = 3
Possibility = 1
How = 17
Suspect = 1

[DouglasKC]

somewhat... he’s making chicken embryos express latent genetic traits like dinosaur-like tails.

No, he's not. He's trying, but has so far been unsuccessful according to the article.

[Diamond]

[taxesareforever]

How did dinosaurs turn into chickens?

You think the article is interesting I submit this to you. What came first the chicken or the egg?

[Elsie]

My house shares 99% of it’s construction materials with one of Trump’s mansion; too!

[RightWhale]

You has to recapitulate the diagenesis of the theory too.

[dan1123]

Latent genes are going to be the next theory that goes the way of recapitulation.

[razzle]

“Interesting. Good article.”

Total BS (paleontologists learned that modern birds, including chickens, descended from dinosaurs) they wish it were true, but wishing is not science.

[49th]

They figured this one out last year. It was the egg.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/

[taxesareforever]

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.

Where did the egg come from?

[curiosity]

But if scientists can make chickens look like dinosaurs, what other creatures might they build? What variations on the human form are possible?

Shudder. Sounds like someone wants to make the Island of Dr. Moreau a reality.

[taxesareforever]

Thought so. No answer says it all. Go back to DC.

[Alter Kaker]

Where did the egg come from?

A Red Junglefowl somewhere in South Asia, possibly Gallus gallus spadiceus. Does that answer your question?

[taxesareforever]

A Red Junglefowl somewhere in South Asia, possibly Gallus gallus spadiceus. Does that answer your question?

Where did the Red Junglefowl come from?

[Alter Kaker]

Where did the Red Junglefowl come from?

Ah, now that's a different question. All extant junglefowl are descended from primitive junglefowl which emerged as the genus Gallus in Eastern Europe in the Pleistocene; they're all members of the pheasant family.

We can go back up the evolutionary ladder to prokaryotes if you'd like, but I think I've answer your "chicken and egg" question.

[taxesareforever]

but I think I've answer your "chicken and egg" question.

So easy to state that the egg came from the junglefowl but it gets extremely difficult (impossible) to backtrack that egg all the way back to....to....what?