In class we compared the idea of diverse humanoid species living at the same time to a variety of species of monkeys or birds, etc living in a jungle. While it makes sense that various hominids lived alongside each other, I couldn't quite picture it until we connected it to how we are already used to seeing animals coexist. Of course there were different species! Of course different species would have evolved to spend more or less time in the trees or teeth that ate from this or that source, therefore coexisting without being in direct competition with one another. And of course interspecies mating would lead to the next branch in the evolutionary line.
The answer given for the chicken or the egg question was so hilariously simple. Just as breeding across humanoid species led to the first modern day humans, breeding across bird species led to the first chicken to crawl out of a chicken egg. But that just opens up new questions. If the chicken didn't come first, who/what were mom and dad?!
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