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Did the chicken | come before the egg?

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Yes but it's not likely to have been the type of fluffy chicken that we recognise today.

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No as all life must hatch and grow out of something i.e. an egg.

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Depends on your understanding of the Bible and other ancient, philosophical texts which discuss the origins of life.

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It's tricky- perhaps there wasn't one chicken or egg first but instead it all happened gradually over time.

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milan1

Then another chicken was brought into existence then another and another so chicken

18 Mar 2024

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milan1

So we were Eukaryotic cells. Then we mutated into something bigger then bigger then bigger and boom. Chicken. Then the chicken had and egg

18 Mar 2024

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okami

hmm..... evolution over time because without the chicken there was no egg and without egg there was no chicken it all depends how u see it..

19 May 2021

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jack_is_noice.

evolution, over many many years chicken like creatures laid eggs then the hatched chicks were similar to our eggs then have eggs and so on

3 Mar 2021

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savannahjasmine

wait say if we base this off of religious belief didn't G-d make all animals and then they mated (and some hatched eggs)

19 Feb 2021

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jeffthepotato4life

Wow an interesting question, you think that oh the egg came first but who laid that egg? And where did that chicken come from? Very deep.

1 Nov 2020

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xo.amaraxo

its a hard one because there's no way around it if the chicken was first what did it come from and if the egg was first what layed it??

13 May 2020

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ellgreeni

where did the idea of eating eggs come from in the first place?

28 Apr 2020

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francois

A different breed must have mated with another type of breed, such that the product would have been what we now know as a chicken.

2 Jan 2020

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o

god first

8 May 2019

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tristan

Something related to a chicken must have laid an egg and the egg had a genetic mutation causing a chicken to hatch rather than original bird

7 Dec 2018

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happy otter

I reckon eggs probably came first, but they might have looked different to the eggs we eat for breakfast today.

2 Nov 2017

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whoisthat

Egg-citing debate but i think chickens evolved from a bird ancestor. Better question - why do chicken and eggs taste good together? Weird.

2 Nov 2017

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