The chicken or the egg (which came first)

The age-old question, "What came first, the chicken or the egg?" has both a philosophical and a scientific answer, depending on how you approach it.

Scientific Perspective
Evolutionary biology suggests the egg came first. The reasoning is that, before there were chickens, there were proto-chickens—bird-like ancestors of modern chickens. A genetic mutation in the DNA of two proto-chickens led to the first true chicken, which would have been laid as an egg. This implies the egg, as the container of genetic material leading to the chicken, predates the actual chicken.

Philosophical Perspective
From a cause-and-effect perspective, this question often serves as a metaphor for circular cause-and-consequence dilemmas, illustrating that some origins are inherently paradoxical.

So scientifically, the egg; philosophically, it depends!