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Just so there's no confusion (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I don't think It's that clear, are eggs named by what created them, or what they contain? I could certainly see an argument that the first chicken hatched from a proto-chicken egg

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    Ok, but does it matter what it's called? If it contains a modern chicken, and it's an egg, whether it's a chicken egg, or a proto chicken egg is debatable. But the egg definitely came first

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    Not if we are specifically asking about whether the chicken or the chicken egg came first (which is what the original comment in this chain implied), because if proto-chickens lay proto-chicken eggs and a chicken was hatched out of one, then the chicken came before the chicken egg

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Sure but that's changing the question, the original question is "which came first, the chicken or the egg" not "the chicken or the chicken egg" so the answer to the question, as posed, is definitely: the egg

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