On 7/6/07, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 15:19 +0100, David Restall - System Administrator
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tedd Wrote :-
>
> > At 11:00 PM -0400 7/5/07, Robert Cummings wrote:
> > >On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 22:44 -0400, tedd wrote:
> > >> At 4:48 PM -0400 7/5/07, Daniel Brown wrote:
> > >> >On 7/5/07, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> >>On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 15:04 -0500, Kaleb Pomeroy wrote:
> > >> >>> Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
> > >> >>
> > >> >>The egg, fish were laying them long before chickens walked the earth :)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > But actually, it was dinosaurs.
> > >
> > >Ummmmm... fish predate all land creatures according to evolution....
> > >that's not to say something with eggs didn't predate fish, but I'm too
> > >lazy to go look.
> >
> >
> > Yes, but I was talking about predecessors to the chicken, like
> > Archeopteryx (one of the first feathered dinosaurs), which is/was (my
> > education is dated) believed to be the predecessor of birds.
> >
> > As far as eggs are concerned, they predate fish considerably.
>
> As far as I'm aware, eggs don't predate anything. How could they - they
> don't have legs or mouths so couldn't eat anything if they could run to
> catch it :-)
Don't confuse predation with predate :)
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/predate
Cheers,
Rob.
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An article I just read this morning is quite fitting for this
exact discussion:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/02/bigbird_ani.html?category=animals&guid=20070702170030&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000
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