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Is there a scientific ,logical or theoratical answer to the "what comes first chicken or egg question ? I know it's suppposed to be a paradox but i wanted to know if there is one. if there is share ? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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EDIT : It seems as no one understood what i was talking about and maybe its my fault for not elaborating . I always thought chicken was a metaphor for this paradox and not really meaning chicken as a specific spiece . So my question is how did the ancestor of chicken came to be if it was born (egg) wouldn't it need a parent or if it was a parent (chicken ) woudn't it need to be born ? Or did all the creatures start out as bacteria and climbed out from ocean through evalution if so why isn't any new species being born this way or am i missing something ?

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[–] 79 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The answer is egg, because egg-laying creatures predate the chicken.

If we count it as a chicken egg only, then it depends on if you describe a chicken egg as "an egg laid by a chicken" or "an egg that could hatch into a chicken".

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If we count it as a chicken egg only, then it depends on if you describe a chicken egg as “an egg laid by a chicken” or “an egg that could hatch into a chicken”.

    I think we watched the same youtube video on the topic!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think we did, no.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Which came first, your explanation or the YouTube video?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I mean, I assume the youtube video? I don't know, I didn't watch one that talked about chicken eggs. You'd need to say which youtube video you mean. My explanation came from me.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    I had a science teacher explain it back in high school the 90s before youtube existed. He went with the egg being first since the egg is what we call the new animal until it hatches, the shell is just the external container.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Um no.

    The foetus is first formed in the uterus and then the hen lays down the calcium layer around it.

    So it depends on whether you consider a foetus a chicken or not.

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