What came first, the chicken or the egg?

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DRJ said:
The first chicken came from an egg that was layed by an animal that was not a chicken. So the egg came first.

Agree completely :)

Eggs are a "simpler" (in biological terms) form of reproduction than say gestation in mammals. Its the only way that a "pre-chicken" would be born in the first place.

(note that "egg" doesn't have be a hard-shelled egg, like modern chickens came from - they could be eggs in the same way that fish lay eggs).