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makz11/09/20241 replyview on HN

I have a problem with that. How could non-chicken laid a chicken egg.


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latexr11/09/2024

Chickens didn’t just pop into existence. Another species laid mutated eggs, whose offspring eventually laid more mutated eggs, and on and on until from one of those arose what we recognise as a chicken. Though the change will have been so gradual, it’s not like we have an exact moment to pinpoint.