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[–] 8 points 1 month ago*

Purely from evolutionary biology & physiology: yes, it's the egg. It has actually been fairly definitively answered for almost 20 years that Wikipedia has a section on this

By most definitions of the dilemma it will be the egg which came first. The very first "egg" in our world came long before birds are a thing. If we are strictly talking about chicken eggs, since the modern chicken is a domesticated animal, strictly speaking the first true domesticated chicken came from two non-domestic chicken parents... which created a fertilized egg that became the first domesticated chicken.

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