Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg
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Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg
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Re: Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg
#2So the egg really did come first after all.
Re: Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg
#3> While much of the egg’s contents leaked out, some of the yolk remained, and the researchers preserved it for future DNA analysis.
I'm amazed there was still yolk in there! Although I'm sure it's probably decomposed I would still love to see a picture of 1k year old egg yolk!
Re: Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg
#4So the egg really did come first after all.
well yeah, but we knew that long ago.
fish, dinosaurs, etc.
and this one was long after chickens.
Re: Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg
#5And that's why archaelogy is not for me - I wouldn't share the excitement for finding a 1k old egg in 1k old human poop
Re: Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg
#6So the egg really did come first after all.
well yeah, but we knew that long ago. fish, dinosaurs, etc. and this one was long after chickens.
No one has ever interpreted the question as "which came first, the chicken or the fish egg?"
It's not interesting even when you don't intentionally misinterpret it. If a chicken egg is an egg from which a chicken will hatch, then the egg came first by definition. If a chicken egg is an egg laid by a chicken, then the chicken came first by definition.
Re: Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
well yeah, but we knew that long ago. fish, dinosaurs, etc. and this one was long after chickens.
No one has ever interpreted the question as "which came first, the chicken or the fish egg?" It's not interesting even when you don't intentionally misinterpret it. If a chicken egg is an egg from which a chicken will hatch, then the egg came first by definition. If a chicken egg is an egg laid by a chicken, then the chicken came first by definition.
The attribute of "chickenness" is a sorites paradox. So even if you allow the interpretation of "egg which will become chicken" vs "egg laid by a chicken" (which is quite clever, I hadnt encountered that) you are still stuck with marginal difference between mother and child/egg in overall "chickenicity."
Re: Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg
#8All I can think about is the smell. Both of the "soft human waste" that was surrounding the egg, and the contents of the egg.
Re: Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
well yeah, but we knew that long ago. fish, dinosaurs, etc. and this one was long after chickens.
No one has ever interpreted the question as "which came first, the chicken or the fish egg?" It's not interesting even when you don't intentionally misinterpret it. If a chicken egg is an egg from which a chicken will hatch, then the egg came first by definition. If a chicken egg is an egg laid by a chicken, then the chicken came first by definition.
The whole question is a proxy for the evolution question.
If God put chickens on the Earth then they came first obviously.
If chickens evolved from some close but not quite chicken ancestor then the first chicken hatched from an egg with a beneficial genetic mutation.
Re: Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
No one has ever interpreted the question as "which came first, the chicken or the fish egg?" It's not interesting even when you don't intentionally misinterpret it. If a chicken egg is an egg from which a chicken will hatch, then the egg came first by definition. If a chicken egg is an egg laid by a chicken, then the chicken came first by definition.
The whole question is a proxy for the evolution question. If God put chickens on the Earth then they came first obviously. If chickens evolved from some close but not quite chicken ancestor then the first chicken hatched from an egg with a beneficial genetic mutation.
Maybe God put chicken eggs on the Earth.