This particular philosophical question was shot down by geneticists quite some time ago.
The first chicken was created due to a mutation. Genome mutations occur during cell division, in eggs, and in the mitochondrial genome.
The first chicken hatched from the first chicken egg. Therefore, the egg came first.
Also eggs existed in other species long before chickens.
Surely a chicken egg is an egg laid by a chicken though, not an egg containing a chicken, otherwise unfertilised eggs wouldn't be chicken eggs.
If the mutation occurs in the creature inside the egg, then it makes sense to me that that's where the new species begins. The chicken came first 🤔
I'm going to stop saying chicken and egg now, it's getting ridiculous... 😁
But is chicken-ness actually defined by genetics? An important characteristic of a chicken is its domesticated status, if you consider the birds they descend from, they are remarkably similar, and it's hard to imagine that any one mutation would have been what caused people to start calling them by their own name or considering them as a separate species. It's possible that the first chicken became the first chicken when it was captured by humans, and so preceded the first chicken egg.
Yup. The domesticated chicken has changed quite a bit since domestication began, but the species is still a domesticated chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus). The primary ancestor of the domestic chicken, the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), birthed the first domesticated chicken between 7,000-10,000 years ago.
The way I heard it, the egg came first, it just wasn't a chicken egg
I give people that can pull of casual sex like this a lot of credit. I'm not old fashioned, I'd just be anxious as heck about an intimate moment being one of the only things I'm being judged upon by another person. It's such a hard thing to practice and be truly good at (it's inherently awkward, and porn certainly doesn't count as practice). It's a joke, but comments like this just make it feel almost like a competition. I'd feel like I was taking a big exam or on stage without a rehearsal.
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