----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 4:03 PM Subject: Re: meta research
> So, which came first, the chicken or the egg? > > I actually think there is an answer to this. :-) > > Yes. The answer must be the egg, if you figure that only changes in > blueprints (i.e., in the genes of living organisms) are passed on > from > one generation to another. The entity was conceived by a > proto-chicken, its genes changed, and its changed genes are got > passed > on. This supposes that in biological evolution there are no > Lamarkian > changes, as in human learning. > Glad I read ahead, because that it pretty much what I wanted to say. A chicken egg and the chicken that hatches from it are the same entity to a great degree. So the first chicken was once an egg laid by a "Proto-Chicken". (Bob uses the exact term I was thinking of using) xponent The First Chicken Was A Mutant Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
