• Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Proto-chicken>chicken>eschato-chicken

      Chickens have “evolved” in recent years more than recent centuries

      We just keep the chicken name but at what point do they become a different animal.

      Evolution is slow and has no definite point in time of “First official example of a 2000s definition of a chicken”

      It’s similar to the paradox of the heap.

      Of course a “chicken” layed the first chicken egg. But if we called that “chicken” a chicken then her egg would be the first chicken egg. Not the one she just layed.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      if you want something crazier, look into ring species. where different species of animals have all their in-between species still alive and mate with each other, but the ones at the extremes cant mate with each other