Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg?
vvilld@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The egg is the only possible correct answer to this.
Modern chickens didn’t exist until something like 10,000 years ago. The egg was a key development in allowing animals to live on land, and first came about somewhere around 300 million years ago.
But if you want to narrow it down to just chicken eggs, then you have it right. The immediate predecessor to the first thing that can be called a ‘chicken’ laid a chicken egg from which hatched a chicken.
The egg absolutely came first.
NABDad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ah, but is a chicken egg a chicken egg because it came out of a chicken or because a chicken comes out of it?
That is the real question.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
This problem seems very similar to the impossibility of measuring a coastline accurately.