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Re: The Splatoon 2 Chicken VS. Egg Splatfest Is Officially Underway

Cineologist

@TeslaChippie But there ARE pre-chickens ("proto-chickens" if one prefers). This is not up for debate. Yes, I agree with you that evolution is gradual. Very gradual. "Not a chicken" laying an egg to a chicken is not the point I'm trying to get across. I'm talking about random mutations that accumulate which LEAD UP to the eventual chicken ("now chicken") we come to know and love to eat. There isn't any clear demarcations either between one generation to the next. (That I know of.) Even to this day, chickens we know are still changing (especially now that chickens are pumped with hormones--which epigenetics may have a role). They may be different 1,000 or 10,000 years from now. Who knows.

In retrospect, maybe I shouldn't have stated "scientific." Maybe the term throws people off. But according to literature, this occurs in nature, not just in chickens but other organisms as well.

Re: The Splatoon 2 Chicken VS. Egg Splatfest Is Officially Underway

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@TeslaChippie You are correct to assert that evolution, in general, affects population-level genetics. But do not discount the importance of individual-level mutations that could then be passed on to future generations. "Pre-chickens," through many years of breeding and accumulation of genetic changes after generations, eventually became what we come to know as the modern chicken. (Could be Pre-Chicken A > Pre-Chicken B > ... Pre-Chicken Z > Modern Chicken--) If such individual changes, more importantly their accumulation that then contribute to better fitness, in the DNA were for naught, even we as a species wouldn't be here today. And then there's the influence of epigenetic changes...