From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!davidson Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: A Chicken/Egg problem Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.2291 Posted: Fri Aug 20 20:52:00 1982 Received: Sun Aug 22 00:57:59 1982 References: cbosgd.2496 I'm not sure how seriously to take people's chicken/egg arguments, but here goes: This business about chickens mutating from protochickens in a single generation is nonsense. Thus there was never any problem about who to breed with. "Proto-chickens" evolved gradually into chickens, with the result that after a large number of generations, the resulting individuals would no longer be able to breed with their remote ancestors (assuming they were still around).