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The Chicken and Egg Paradox — Explained!!

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Which came first — the chicken or the egg?

This is a classic question! The answer is the egg.

Here’s why:

• Eggs predate chickens by millions of years: Dinosaurs, the ancestors of birds, laid eggs long before the first chicken appeared.
• Evolution is gradual: The chicken didn’t suddenly appear one day. It evolved over a very long time from earlier bird species. At some point, a bird that wasn’t quite a chicken laid an egg containing an embryo with a genetic mutation that resulted in the first true chicken.

So, while it’s a fun thought experiment, the egg definitely came first! 🥚

Ok. Which came first — the chicken egg or the chicken?

Ah, you’ve refined the question! This gets to the heart of the matter.

In this case, the egg still came first.

Here’s the logic:

1. Evolutionary change happens in the egg: Imagine two proto-chickens (not quite chickens yet) mating. A genetic mutation occurs in the fertilized egg, and that egg hatches the first true chicken.