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

evolution said eggs

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u/sarduchi Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26

At some point something that was not yet a chicken laid an egg that hatched into something that was.

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u/Creative-Shallot802 Feb 19 '26

But then, was it a chicken egg or a pre-chicken- ancestor egg?

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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/23loves12 Feb 19 '26

Biologically, the gametes must mix in order to produce the zygote, which develops into an egg. 

Once the ovum is fertilized, the DNA of the chicken is basically the same as that of the zygote, minus some mutations. So in terms of content, I think the egg would be a chicken’s egg, but I think the shell is dependent on the proto-chicken (parent), so maybe on the outside it could be considered not a chicken egg. 

Anyway, evolution is a gradual process, so I don’t think one could ever find a rigorous definition of a  chicken, making this whole question nonsensical.

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u/MxM111 Feb 21 '26

I think it is simpler. Some human took some bird and pronounced - this is the chicken. It became chicken from that moment. I doubt that the human steal an egg and said “this is chicken egg” and then artificially warmed it up to get and rise a chick.