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and I had to blink for like 20 seconds before answering. I said well, that depends on how you’re defining the question, because the ability to lay eggs predates chickens by quite a bit. but if you’re asking what came first, the chicken or the chicken egg, it would be the chicken because whatever minuscule mutation it is that theoretically makes us consider a chicken a chicken would be in the embryo inside a not-chicken egg. and then that chicken would grow up and lay a chicken egg. but the question is actually nonsense because there’s no clear line you can draw between ‘chicken’ and ‘not a chicken’, and species as a concept is actually more artificial than you think. I can use ‘ring species’ as an example to help illustrate that, if you want. so say a deer species lives on a u-shaped island with a giant impassable mountain in the center. because of gene flow, all the populations living beside eachother will be able to interbreed. but, because the populations on either side of the u have theoretically been separate for millions of years, they can’t interbreed. is it all one species? is it multiple species? where do you draw the line? is it based on external features? on genome? because even those break down under scrutiny. so you see, the chicken and the egg question is just nonsense. also what protein. what protein did the scientists discover in the egg.