The egg came before the chicken

But in order for there to be a chicken, there has to be an egg and for there to be an egg, there has to be a chicken and just thinking about it's DOING MY HEAD IN! ⚡🤖⚡

Well at Johns No Frills there's stacks of eggs and not a chicken in sight, so you're obviously correct.

I think (and I may not be that smart in biology) that genetic drift would support that idea. Random mutations cause new species that happen pre-birth causing the off spring to be somewhat dissimilar to the parents. In that idea the first chickens were naturally occurring genetic mutation's from another species that pre-dated its gene line. That would have happened in birth meaning the egg came first.

National Institutes of Health is suggesting that the red junglefowl was the main ancestor of domestic chicken and that the drift happened almost 8100 years ago.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8214436/#:~:text=The%20data%20suggested%20that%20the,%3A%207%2C014%E2%80%938%2C768%20years).

You're correct. Reptiles laid eggs long before chickens existed.

The rooster came before either of them.

The egg would need incubation, turning and protection from predators to even have a chance of hatching. Therefore the chicken would need to have come first to provide all that.

I think that I will let @XDHyperGirlXD1 field this one ...

As she has consumed so many of both , that she has the best sample base for a certain answer ..

Agreed the egg came first. It is pretty easy to work out using evolution. Everything on the land evolved from egg-laying sea creatures.

Scientifically speaking, it would had to have come first. So no argument from me. 🙃

I just ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.

it's arbitrary, when the none chicken laid the first egg that would hatch the chicken!

I wrote an article about it before

Agreed. There would be no egg without first there being a chicken.

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Yup. Everyone knows, it's the egg.

Did you know that a bbq chicken omelette is called the Mother and Child Reunion?
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