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[โ€“] [email protected] 91 points 3 days ago (12 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago

Also eggs existed in other species long before chickens.

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