Relating the question of species-ness to the sorities paradox is more than tangential - quite insightful, in fact. An individual that is too different from its

Relating the question of species-ness to the sorities paradox is more than tangential - quite insightful, in fact. An individual that is too different from its peers to breed is never the founder of a new species, so the concept of 'first chicken' is at best a matter of convention, and is more likely to add confusion rather than insight.