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Kudbegud
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg. There is now a possible definitive answer.
I have maintained that the egg came first.
If it's all animals - dinosaurs, primitive fish and insects all laid eggs long before there were any semblance of a chicken. The question is traditionally only about chickens.
My thinking has been a non-chicken like bird laid a mutant egg containing the first genetically identifiable chicken.
The possible scientific definitive answer is upon us.
We can rest easy now that the ultimate question has been answered.
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Whichever came first, it was obviously not on correct side of the road...if only we knew why.
or which came first, the coffee or the donut ???
No chicken no egg.
Extra crispy or nugget?
Since the answer to the question is based in evolution, it is obvious the egg came before the chicken....The predecessors were laying eggs long before the chicken - in the common form today - arrived from an egg - or more realistically, many eggs along the egg highway of evolution. Cheers, RickO
Why did the chicken go to the seance?
To get to the other side!
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It's pretty obvious! Eggs are for breakfast, followed by chicken at dinner.
You agree with me. You'd be baffled by the counter arguments I've heard from some who contested the obvious when I posted my theory on a Twitter thread in response to the question. I had to stop responding to a persistent reply-er.
What if the first modern-day chicken was born something else and then subject to a post-birth gene modification (cancer or radiation, perhaps) and thus became the chicken we know after hatching? Then, when it laid its next egg as an adult, the chicken preceded the chicken egg...I'm just saying...coulda happened. I wasn't there.