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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    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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      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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            9 months 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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            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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      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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        I think you mean the embryo; it takes some time after being laid for the zygote inside the egg to develop to the point it could be considered a fetus.