The Chicken or The Egg?



One of the more frustrating things in life is the question " What came first: The chicken or the egg?"
Thinkers and idiots alike have explored the facts and gags regarding this question. 
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In one way, the question is unanswerable, since eggs hatch into chicken and chicken lay eggs... UGH! Who will bring about an answer to this question?! Will it ever be answered, or will it remain more of a mystery like the questions regarding the Bermuda Triangle (Here's a little Easter egg!)

 Fear not for I am here to save thee from thy frustrating thoughts about the egg and chicken dilemma!

 Actually, the solution to this problem wasn't put forward by me, the knight in shining armor is Robert Kulwich from N. P. R. 

If one searches the vast horizons of YouTube, there is this video uploaded by AsapScience,
where Mitchell Moffit asks
"Is a chicken egg one laid by a chicken or only one that simply contains a chicken?"
Take some time to let that sink in. Took me a couple of reads to get it too!
Now let's break it down.

 What he's saying is, a long, long, time ago, an animal looking a lot like a chicken (It was genetically very, very close, but not quite there; we'll call it a "proto-chicken.") laid an egg. 
An animal resembling rooster had fertilized that egg, but when pappa's genes and mommy's genes fused, they combined in a new way, creating a mutation that accidentally made the baby different from its parents. 
While it would take thousands of years and generations to notice the difference, that egg was different enough to become the pioneer of a new species, an animal we now call ... A Chicken. 

 So if we look at that first egg, created by accident from two almost-chickens — couldn't we say it all started with a new and different egg?

 That's for you to decide. Go ahead, like always, release your imagination!

Source: N. P. R.

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