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Humanity, since the formation of its languages, has been plagued with a number of short simple questions that we cannot seem to answer. For hundreds of years, simple paradoxes have given us something to wonder about when science continues to find ways to spell out the rest of it.
Some are a matter of opinion - is the glass half empty, or half full? Some could probably be solved with a little intensive investigation, but due to constantly differing circumstances never are: Where do all the socks go? ( I am personally inclined toward the Sock Gnome theory, which is inversely proportionate to the amount of change that can be found under your couch cushions. It’s hardly theft. )
But there is one that is infamous for its apparent catch twenty-two. It is asked so often that its utterance no longer demands an answer. It seems so mind numbingly simple and yet, for some reason, no one I have ever spoken to has provided a watertight answer. But really - given an evolutionary perspective which, I can allow, some may not hold - it is very simple to explain.
Think of the classic symbol of evolution, a monkey’s progression into a man. Now, if each offspring were like its parent, this obviously wouldn’t have happened. Apply this theory, then, to the evolution of chickens. Chickens weren’t always as they are now, we can safely assume; over the ages there have been changes not only in their habitat but also their surrounding food chain, both of which would necessitate at least minor adaptation to their physical form.
Assuming survival of the fittest applies: imagine being the first “bird” safely classifiable as a “chicken”. Talk about a genetic mutation.
For some reason, God knows why (likely), chickens were better suited to the environment of their time than were their parents. Otherwise they wouldn’t have survived. This first chicken continued to breed, evolution being a cosmically efficient yet sluggish phenomenon, eventually (very eventually) becoming what we shove into small cages ten at a time, lop the heads off of in great numbers and fry up in fatty grease to stuff our faces with today. Not that this is the point. The point is that the egg which bore the first chicken did not come from another chicken, because there were none. The chicken could not, logically, have come before the egg. Even if you want to nitpick back to the embryonic stage, the egg forms before the cells begin to take the form of a “chicken” and is laid before the embryo develops into anything recognizable. So ha.
And there you have it, the logical evolutionary explanation for why the egg came before the chicken. Thank you.