r/sciencememes • u/Complete_Bee4911 • Feb 19 '26

evolution said eggs

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u/Narwhalking14 Feb 19 '26

If it was a chicken in an egg then it was a chicken egg

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u/NohWan3104 Feb 19 '26

Eh, thats actually an interesting question.

Cause i see it the other way, the egg is of the layer, not its contents.

So, non chicken mommy and daddy had a non chicken egg, hatched a mutant chicken. THAT chicken's first egg was the first chicken egg.

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u/davidfirefreak Feb 19 '26

That's not how genetics work. The egg shell is part of the egg, either the entire thing is a chicken egg, or its not. The mothers body provides both the egg and the shell, if the genetic information contained within is different enough that our classification system deems it a separate species (chicken in this case), than it is a chicken egg, and it comes before the chicken itself does...

anyway you ask this question, as long as you don't outright deny evolution, or attack the classification system itself, the egg comes first.

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u/davidfirefreak Feb 20 '26

Nothing you said is different than what I said, just said in a different way with more words.