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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by THEDAEMON@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The concept of "eggs" is way, way older then chickens. Fish lay eggs. So in this case, it's definitly the egg that came first.

You can dig deeper, but eventually you end up on the what is a "chicken egg" and a "chicken" .. which means you have to deal with taxonomy. And well, it's just made up... so that doesn't really lead anywhere.

So I say it's the egg. final answer.

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 5 points 11 months ago

This is the only answer. Dinosaurs laid eggs long before they evolved into chickens.

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