Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing?

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Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing? - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

That was never a “serious” question in that sense. It’s just a philosophical paradox.

The real answer is that you need to look at the ancestry tree. There wasn’t a moment that a chicken popped up, it was a gradual evolution between an ancestor and until a point that we decided “yup, that’s a chicken”.

It’s not so much a philosophical challenge as a grammatical question.

Was the egg that the very first chicken hatched from a chicken egg, even though it was laid by a non-chicken?

If I waved a scientifically-advanced biotech wand and impregnated a chicken with a small dinosaur, would the resultant egg be a chicken egg even though a dinosaur came out?