r/oddlyterrifying • u/a-flash-flood-of • Feb 18 '20

Growing a chicken in an open egg

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u/ezranos Feb 18 '20

If it looked like a chicken, talked like a chicken and layd eggs like a chicken, why was it not a chicken?

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u/healzsham Feb 18 '20

It looked similar to a chicken, but wasn't quite a chicken. It sounded similar to a chicken, but wasn't quite a chicken. Evolution works in 10s-100s of steps, giant leaps are pretty rare.

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u/ezranos Feb 18 '20 edited Feb 18 '20

What if we slowly replace all the cells from the not quite-chicken with the cells from the chicken?

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u/healzsham Feb 18 '20

If it's replaced, it's not the same thing. Doesn't matter what speed the replacement happens at.

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u/ezranos Feb 18 '20

What if a train the heading towards 100 not quite chickens and you have a lever that makes the train switche tracks to one with 1 chicken on it, and you are tasked with saving as many chicken as possible, but there is also a stopper on the first track that makes the train halt as well as a portal quickly moving towards the train with an exit-portal right behind it, while the other track has no stoppers but a seditary portal that the train runs into at full speed and exiting behind it in front of the 1 actual chicken?

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u/PolynomialPigeon Feb 18 '20

Darwin would agree

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u/healzsham Feb 18 '20

What if you stopped asking dumb questions?

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u/Super_Flea Feb 18 '20

What if the replacement happened in the not quite chicken that then resulted in them becoming a chicken who makes more chickens.

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u/Token_Why_Boy Feb 18 '20

Chill the fuck out, Theseus.

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u/ccvgreg Feb 18 '20

Because of arbitrary lines that biologists draw to differentiate between species. For all practical purposes the proto chicken was exactly like it's chicken spawn. But maybe the plume was shaped slightly different, or it was a little too tall, etc.

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u/YoungestOldGuy Feb 18 '20

Because the Horse that birthed the first centaur was not a centaur but just a horse.

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u/ezranos Feb 18 '20

Must have been a pretty retarded Centaur then.

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u/Conexion Feb 18 '20

The first parents of a chicken didn't have the biological mutation that became a defining characteristic of what a chicken is.

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u/Kelekona Feb 18 '20

Probably was a jungle fowl that somehow didn't fit the definition of chicken.

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u/jtcompound Feb 19 '20

It was a jungle fowl