• foggy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Two answer.

    “Chicken” comes before “or the egg.”

    Or

    Whatever layed the first chicken egg was not itself a chicken, but a few tweaks of the genome away. I this regard, the real answer is “The egg.”

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      1 year ago

      The egg since eggs existed long before the first chicken. Since the question does not specify it HAS to be a “chicken egg” just egg

    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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      Definitely the correct answer.

      Unless scientists decide chickens are still the same species as their wild counterpart (the red junglefowl), like with dogs and arguably pigs.

      Probably won’t bother, honestly.