Talk:Which came first?

— 19:22, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

me! - N (talk) 19:23, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

the egg must've had the mutant red junglefowl, which turned out to be the first chicken. checkmate, team chicken - SGuySMW (talk) 19:23, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

me! - N (talk) 19:26, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

one vote per user - SGuySMW (talk) 19:27, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

The egg. Creatures have been laid in eggs for billions of years before they evolved into what would become the modern day chicken. -Snowphie/Cellphone😜 (talk) 20:05, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

WE SPECIFICALLY REFER TO THE CHICKEN EGG. DO NOT PLAY TRIFLES.

Here's why this question is a bit odd: the transition from one species to another is a spectrum. There is no single point in the chicken's evolutionary history where proto-chickens stopped being proto-chickens and started being chickens; it's the paradox of the heap. If we assume that there is a definite point where proto-chickens became chickens, which came first would depend on how "chicken egg" is defined; if a chicken egg is one laid by a chicken, then the chicken would have come first; if it's defined as an egg which hatches into a chicken, the egg would have come first. But in really there is no clear line, so my personal answer is that they both arose slowly over the same period of time — 00:31, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

me - N (talk) 00:33, 9 July 2024 (UTC)