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pouwerkerktoday at 6:59 AM1 replyview on HN

which came first: the chicken or the egg? language.


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echelontoday at 7:06 AM

Fun joke! Eggs are really old evolutionarily. Over 600 million years old if you count preamniotes.

You could still say that's recent on the evolutionary time span, given that life on Earth is ~3.5-3.7 billion years old. (Which is within the same order of magnitude as the age of the universe - which is itself wild to ponder.)

Chickens are a human invention.

It's fun to think about theropod language centers. Raptor kiki bouba.