if evolution is true, why are there no chicken species which are a certain % of original chickens?

Question

meaning why no partially completed chickens or animals that have partial characteristics of chickens ? But only 100% completed chickens !

Answer 1

Your very notion is wrong. there are no 100% complete chickens and there never have been. Every chicken is slightly different and chickens we know today are just a link in the long line of animals wit wings and feathers. Also, lets go down the list of characteristics of chickens, they have beaks, lay eggs, feathers, and wings, can you think of any other animals that have any or all of those things?

The problem with your argument is that you dont understand how your own perception of reality as being status quo prevents you from realizing that you are a prisoner of things you are used to seeing. You see chickens and think chickens, a static species, but with a little imagination, you can see that no species, chickens or otherwise are static.

Answer 2

i agree with the answerer who advised you to get basic education in genetics and then you would not ask such question. you have never seen any other animal with partial characteristics of a chicken?? you dont know there are other poultry species than chicken? sorry but you sound so seriously illiterate in biology that i seriously doubt that you actually could tell a little duckling or goosling from a young chicken if you saw them. yes, there are several species of wild chicken - to begin with, and then quite a lot of birds closely related to chicken ... so all of them have some treats in common - if that is what you mean by original chicken.

anyway how do you by naked eye tell a 98% chicken from 100% one. just tell me. or 75% because there ARE hybrids...

or how much in percent is the difference between, say, different species of wild turkeys/chickens/ducks/geese? indeed this requires some genetics info

Answer 3

Good question and glad that you asked it.

Lets word it another way: 100% chicken are called chicken and anything else less are called chicken-like.

The moment chicken formed their own species from the chicken-like species, there was competition: for resources, spaces to live etc.

They could have continued to compete for resources in which the chicken-like species died out due to being genetically inferior and unable to compete successfully for resources etc.

They could have also split up and formed their own niche: in which both species changed the resources they needed and changed the terrain that they lived in (moving to another area).

Whatever the case, the chicken nowadays are not all the same. There are different breeds of chicken, and as other people mentioned, not all chicken are identical and for chicken to evolve into something else takes thousands and thousands of years.

Actually, ancestors of chicken are supposedly the Red Junglefowl in Asia.

Good question and hope to answer more.

Word of reply to ChinaJon: Darwin did point out holes in his theory but that doesn't mean he thinks his entire theory is wrong. Just because "oh, the mighty scientist is criticizing his own theory" that doesn't mean science cannot expand on it. When scientists come up with answers, they think about other questions that come up if whatever they find is true. And as for macroevolution? Yes, as a scientists I agree that this is a weak point but that doesn't mean we won't find any and that at this point, it proves evolution wrong.

Actually, people always argue about how sea animals came to evolve on land. They say whatever animal containing characteristics of land and sea cannot be fit enough for both. Just recently, scientists have linked 5 different fossils of creatures with exactly those traits: both sea and land. I consider that a pretty big macro-evolution there.

Answer 4

It sounds as if you are trying to find faults in Evolution. It is one of our most strongly-supported scientific theories, so you cannot demolish it. You wouldn't comprehend if someone did tell you the full story, and you probably wouldn't want to do so. What is the original chicken? The birds you mention evidently became extinct. That happens often. We cannot find fossils of every creature that existed. This sounds like the stale "missing link" routine, but with chickens, rather than humans and apes. I suggest that you do much reading on the subject if you are really so interested...and try to develop an open mind. If you are just putting down Evolution, consider that you won't learn anything if you make up your mind before you hear any facts.

Answer 5

Most people don't understand the huge potential of DNA.

Most people don't know where any species came from.

Most people don't understand that Darwin's Theory has been abandoned by geneticists. Even Darwin know there were big holes in it, and your question is one of the biggest. Darwin hoped that the fossil record would bear him out for macro-evolution, but it has not.

Micro-evolution is what he get when we breed roses or dogs. We get new varieties of roses or dogs, but we don't get tulips or cats.

This is another problem with 'Evolution.'

Evolution is just a theory that is trying to explain why there are so many different life forms in the world. It is only a poor teaching tool, and gives a wrong impression to many people.

;-D Breed love, not war!

Answer 6

Okay....just for the people who actually believe some of the garbage in here...
TAKI.....YOU ARE A TARD

that whole rant...about mutations......guess what...a single mutation in DNA....while most of the time creates a defect....can COMPLETLY CHANGE A PHENOTYPE MAKING IT MORE ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE SPECIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anyone who has spent any time in any kind of GENETICS lab understands this.....why do people read garbage and preach about things they haven't the slightlest clue about....



oh yeah...the question....there are all kinds of chickens...some of them are born funny...thats called evolution...in a nutshell...some of them are different...the ones that are different and better at the same time become the new chickens...while the old chickens die out....zelot is another term for old chicken

Answer 7

How do you know the chicken is a completed chicken? Maybe it is only 50% chicken. There are so many species of chicken. Which one is true? Maybe they are all 50%.

Answer 8

Because evolution is a very gradual process over millions of years. A fish wouldn't lay eggs that hatch into frogs overnight. It takes millions of years for very slight changes to occur, so by the time a new species completely evolves it's predecessor would have long since been extinct.

Answer 9

That is a good question.

The answer is most likely due to the fact that life evolves in fits and starts.

A good example is extinction events. This enables the surviving species to expand into niches that were not open to them, eg mammals expansion after the dinosaurs died out.

At the present there have been no huge climatic and catastrophic pressures for species to change. Also, since mankind turned into the most horrendous hunter the world has seen, we have effectively cut down the number of species, and in agriculture we have actually taken control of the gene pool.

But the fact that you can develop a dacshund out of a long-legged pre-dog like a wolf, or as I have done breed horses back down to miniature (as they used to be millions of years ago), proves that the gene pool can be changed both purposely and accidentally.

Note that seals, sealions and dolphins have skeletal hands and feet inside their flippers, testimony to the fact they were once land animals that have evolved to life in the sea.

That would be a good one for the creationists. Why would God do something so crazy as to give a seal hand bones that it can't use. Fish fins don't have this skeletal structure in their fins, as they have always been in the sea.

But then the creationists would say something like, it was just to fool people like us.

That is one tricky God, eh?

Answer 10

We make them that way. If you ordered chicken at a restaurant
and got a chicken that has the partial characteristics of a turkey, would you like it?