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Amen. Another way to put it is that a chicken was once an egg, so even if "the chicken came first," that chicken was once an egg.

• SamBam 5y ago
  A chicken wasn't once an egg. A chicken was once a fertilized egg cell, but an "egg" is the vessel that contains the zygote [1], and was created entirely by the mother (i.e. it is not a result of fertilization). So a chicken was once in an egg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg
  • feupan 5y ago
    We’re not saying “what came first? The chicken or the zygote?” Consider the context before trying to correct people. You’re just being pedantic for no reason.
    • SamBam 5y ago
      Huh? No, I'm saying something very specific that you may have missed. Many people in this thread are using the word "egg" in the same way as a female mammal releases an "egg" in estrus, i.e. the cell which will become an organism once fertilized. Hence the discussion elsewhere of how the mutation has already happened in this cell. For instance, besides this thread, another person said "resulting in the very first chicken ever. Which of course started out as an egg. I'm saying that a bird "egg", from the Wikipedia link, is not the gamete cell but rather simply the container, created by the mother. So statements such as "[the chicken] started out as an egg" or "a chicken was once an egg" (your statement) are simply incorrect, just as saying "a human baby was once a uterus" is wrong. It's not pedantic "for no reason" (at least any more than the rest of this by-definition pedantic discussion is).