The game-changing amniotic egg - April Tucker
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350
million years ago, eggs could not survive far from water, therefore
animals were water-bound. That is, until the amniotic egg, which allowed
animals to live a fully terrestrial life. April Tucker peels back each
layer of the amniotic egg, revealing how truly extraordinary this
evolutionary marvel is.
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
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Vivian McKenzie
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The egg came first.
raahim memon
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Egg because without an egg a chicken would not born.
scott greenield
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DUH!!! The chicken,the egg is a variable,it may or may not hatch............
Alan Velasco
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The egg (like the ones the dinosaurs laid). Birds are way ahead in the evolutionary line.
Akhilesh Pandey
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egg.
when first time something was beginning to happen, atoms were trying to collide, matter was trying to collapse, they all must have tried to get a simple shape, not some sexy designs of chickens. yeah , it's all i got.!!
