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If a proto-chicken lays an egg and a chicken comes out of it, was the egg a chicken egg or a proto-chicken’s egg? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, I was arguing with some people of the chicken and egg problem and it came down to this

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's a proto-chicken egg. It's not a chicken egg until chickens become a breedable species. That one chicken could be sterile/infertile like a mule for all we know.

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