I think the egg came first because in order for the chicken to even exist and evolve to its current state, it would need to be first hatch only BY THEN it becomes the famous clucking bird we know and love.

Checkmate chicken-ists your move?

  • vvilld@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The egg is the only possible correct answer to this.

    Modern chickens didn’t exist until something like 10,000 years ago. The egg was a key development in allowing animals to live on land, and first came about somewhere around 300 million years ago.

    But if you want to narrow it down to just chicken eggs, then you have it right. The immediate predecessor to the first thing that can be called a ‘chicken’ laid a chicken egg from which hatched a chicken.

    The egg absolutely came first.

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      19 hours ago

      Ah, but is a chicken egg a chicken egg because it came out of a chicken or because a chicken comes out of it?

      That is the real question.