are there really more chickens in the would than humans?
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You know 'chickenboy' may be right! How would our world as we know it be without chicken and eggs?
44039
because one of them has more has more geese in it
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Some Dude gave a great answer-I would add, just for interest, that the human race has exceedingly little genetic variation compared to other animals.  A recent study showed that an average-sized chimpanzee colony has more genetic variation that the entire human race.  This is presumably because at some point in the recent past (150-200,000 years) our common ancestors existed, and evidently our race must have been very close to going extinct, leaving a very small pool of humans with which to populate the Earth.
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Before there were chickens, we had non-chickens. In order for an animal to evolve they must mutate and have a characteristic that gives them an advantage over the other non-chickens (a longer neck for example would allow them to see further and spot predators first). \n\nThe mutation that allowed a chicken to develop from our non-chickens would have been contained in the foetal form of a non-chicken, this non-chicken had a characteristic that enabled it to be successful and pass it on to its offspring. Therefore I suggest that the successful chicken protoype came first and then passed it on to its offspring through its eggs. therefore the chicken came first.\n\nIn some ways this is a non-question as organisms are constantly evolving therefore there was no real first chicken, plus what we know as chickens were geneticaly engineered by human by selective breeding and so have been removed from the darwin evolution thread.
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we got alliens more developed than humans
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You are so funny!!!  I'll just bet they do.  Animals are smarter than their human counterparts.
548556
Each chicken has a left wing and a right wing.  It doesn't matter how many there are; they are all chicken.  Catch my drift?
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Last time I counted 12.\n\nThere might have been one more behind the barn.......
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Nope.  If there was no demand for beef or chicken, people would quit raising them and there would be very few of them around anymore.  You surely don't think they run around in huge wild herds, do you?
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Theoretically, pigs will fly out of my pants. But yes, this is a popular theory because of the physical resemblance. Also the rout that humans are taking, media overload leading to large eyes, restricted diets (I don't see it yet) less exercise (I see that) leading to smaller bodies, greater technology. Sure, it might make sense. But no pigs so far.
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Roosters don't lay eggs, chickens do.
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The UK government does produce statistics on this kind of stuff - see links\n\nThere are about 35 million sheep in the UK (including lambs). This compares to around 60 million people\n\nAs others have said, there are probably more sheep than people in Wales (human pop. 3 million), also probably in Scotland (pop. 5 million), maybe in Northern Ireland (pop. less than 2 million). People are definitely in the majority in England (50 million people)
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I think they're few in number because birds really don't live that long, or have too many babies, so they only need a certain number.  I'm sure they're large in size because they have to nourish the baby birds inside after the egg leaves the mom's body, unlike human babies, who get their nourishment straight from the mother.\n\nI'm not sure if that's right, but I hope it helped.
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The hen of course. Each species was sent in pair and then they multiplied. Imagine a mammal, it does not lay eggs, so it must have come as in its animal form first.
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Depends on the size of the herd.
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maybe they just enjoy chicken?
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YES...if the bird was sick before being cooked. And, YES, through eggs if the bird was sick or if not cooked thoroughly. This bird flu is really getting serious now...the question is not "if" it will turn into a pandemic, but "when". And, people are still being careless about live chickens here in China...the wet markets are still butchering chickens, with their blood spurting out all over the floor and possibly into vegetables, etc. I don't know what it will take before everyone realizes how grave this problem is becoming. Unfortunately, it may take the sacrifice of human lives condensed into an area before peoples' lives elsewhere will be saved. The gene is just figuring out how to mutate from human to human - and that's all it will take.