Chicken Teeth. Nice Babies.

So apparently chicken grow crocodile like teeth now. Which seems strange. However, what seems even stranger is that scientists attribute this to a dormat gene from the way back when chickens were still reptile ancestors. I guess evolution goes both ways, like the guys from Brokeback. What's weird to me, is that it seems counter-intuitive to attribute the phenomenon to de-evolution. Couldn't this be a golden child of evolution. Maybe it's the new way of chickens, they get teeth... Oh, no wait, that chicken died, before it hatched, and also had extreme limb defects, oops. Apparently this in-egg chicken fetus mutant was discovered 50 years ago, but no one ever looked at its mouth before...

A study of babies find that they like to help out around the house, if they can see a need for help. A child a young as 18 months, if she sees her mommy struggling, will help to carry stuff, or open a door, what ever seems like help. Well it seems that chimpanzees are also good little helpers, although, not as good as babies. Again, scientists, in their infinite wisdom, claim that this similarity, between chimps and babies is probably due to a shared altruism gene, that they both got from a common ancestor. Wow... Being helpful obviously must mean that evolution is true, why else would we be nice... I'm so stupid!

Thanks for reading!
Scott.