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Originally Posted by dlish
what came first..the chicken or the egg?
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I have an answer to this one that will settle it for you forever.
Spoiler:
The egg came first. Whatever laid the first chicken egg was the evolutionary ancestor of the chicken, but was not a chicken. But it laid the first mutant whatever-it-was that we'd now recognize as a chicken, which existed first as an egg, then hatched and was recognizably a chicken. So the egg came first. Something laid that egg, but it wasn't a chicken.