Lord_Drakonus
Connoisseur of Degeneracy
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Personally, I think this question is very stupid. Nothing came first. It all happened over the course of millions of years.
Evolution turned the not-chicken into the chicken over the course of millions of years. There's no egg or chicken that came first, because genetically, at what point did the not-chicken became the chicken?
The most logical answer would be the egg. But that poses a lot of other questions as well.
If it became the chicken we know today when it was in the egg, then doesn't that mean that the parent was already a chicken genetically? Doesn't that mean that the parent should be considered as a chicken, since the off-spring's DNA didn't change much from the parent?
And here's the confusing part, there're hundreds of chicken species that evolved separately around the world. Sure they had a common ancestor, but that common ancestor was a bird that was also a common ancestor to ducks and other birds.
Evolution turned the not-chicken into the chicken over the course of millions of years. There's no egg or chicken that came first, because genetically, at what point did the not-chicken became the chicken?
The most logical answer would be the egg. But that poses a lot of other questions as well.
If it became the chicken we know today when it was in the egg, then doesn't that mean that the parent was already a chicken genetically? Doesn't that mean that the parent should be considered as a chicken, since the off-spring's DNA didn't change much from the parent?
And here's the confusing part, there're hundreds of chicken species that evolved separately around the world. Sure they had a common ancestor, but that common ancestor was a bird that was also a common ancestor to ducks and other birds.