Attribution: Roy E. Plotnick, Jessica M. Theodor & Thomas R. Holtz Jr., CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has concluded his research on which came first the chicken or the human and in keeping with the benevolence of great scientists before him is ready to share his findings.
While chickens and humans still have in common about 75 percent of their genomes, it was only 66 or so million years ago that chickens and humans more or less roosted on the same branch of the evolutionary tree.
The keeper asks if that shared developmental intimacy should not be worth something now when it comes to setting the price of eggs?
The records show that when chickens and humans either fell or were pushed out of the trees, the chickens went the route of dinosaurs and more or less made a name for themselves while humans simply tried to stand up so they could walk to Walmart’s and buy something.
As time went on, some of the humans claiming to be leaders contracted coccidiosis, a chicken disease which causes victims to peck each other to death.
(It was at this point that Phyllis requested that the keeper abandon his scientific work in favor of eating breakfast–an omelet of course.)
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