domestication

sideshowbob said:
I wasn't suggesting that dinosaur eggs were the first eggs, only that they were before chickens.
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So did most other kinds of egg. But none of those kinds of egg were in the riddle.

It really isn't [about chicken eggs] though. That would be trivial. It's about making you think about origins.
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I don't think so. It's about fowl and ova, just as the sound of one hand clapping is about hands and sound.
Its purpose is to make you think about relationships and cycles. Beginnings and ends are irrelevant: it's the endless feedback loop you're supposed to contemplate. (Philosophers have always been a bit wonky-doodle.)
 
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Jeeves said:
Nope. "Which came first - the chicken or the egg?" Both singular and particular.
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You can infer that "the egg" is a chicken egg but that inference is by no means inherent in the riddle. Riddles are typically worded ambiguously. What's black and white and red (read) all over?
 
sideshowbob said:
You can infer that "the egg" is a chicken egg but that inference is by no means inherent in the riddle. Riddles are typically worded ambiguously. What's black and white and red (read) all over?
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Of course the answer to that one is a spoiled dinosaur egg with some blood leaking out.
 
Michael 345 said:
A) - newspaper - dispute read all over

B) - nun, badly bleeding, rolling down stairs - dispute red all over

:)
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Reminds me of one told by my English teacher back in the mid 6os, when I was about 12: What's red outside, black inside and screams? A busload of n*****s going over Beachy Head. We all thought it was funny and nobody was shocked. Shows what attitudes were like, back then, in London.
 
sculptor said:
I recently read a book wherein the question
"Did man domesticate wheat, or did wheat domesticate man?" was asked.

Your thoughts?
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offered IMHO only: Mutual symbiotic evolution with humans initiating the domestication of wheat.

Humans were hunter-gatherers and saw a food source. it doesn't matter where the source was or what it was, some random human (likely in multiple areas at once) had the idea that they could minimize effort while maximizing efficiency by limiting travel and supplying their own food. Their surplus could be used as collateral for [x] in order to gain an advantage.

it speaks volumes about how lazy can be effectively used for efficiency.
Seattle said:
Is which came first, the chicken or the egg, the next topic for discussion?
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the egg would have had to come first, regardless of the species, as we evolved into multicellular organisms from a single cell and as such require growth from a primitive state to a complex state. The egg is just a primitive state where it grows and develops. Humans also have eggs they develop from.

Or, you could just be like me and take the humour side of this:
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Jeeves said:
(Philosophers have always been a bit wonky-doodle.)
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can I hear an AMEN?
oh wait...
 
alternately
Being as we (human cells) ain't even 1/2 of the cells in/on our bodies:
Perhaps, we are somewhat controlled by the appetites of our guest cells
Perhaps after eating wheat, we adopted gut bacteria who really like wheat
and it is they who directed our appetites and labors?

all is a guess
 
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