Scientists Reveal a Shocking Solution to The Chicken or Egg Paradox

Life on Earth may have developed the ability to form embryos even before it grew the very first animals.

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what paradox

SCIENCE said:

what paradox

The chicken or egg paradox is a causality dilemma that asks which came first, the chicken or the egg, and highlights the difficulty of determining cause and effect:

The paradox is based on the observation that all chickens hatch from eggs and all chicken eggs are laid by chickens. Some possible answers to the paradox include:

A mutation occurred: A chicken-like bird laid an egg that was fertilized by a proto-rooster, and the genes from both parents fused to create a chicken.

The egg came first: Egg-laying animals existed before chickens, so the egg came first.

The chicken came first: Only a chicken can lay a chicken egg, so the chicken came first.

The chicken or egg paradox has been used to consider questions about the beginning and end of the world, and to imagine infinity. Philosophers in Ancient Greece first proposed the paradox. In quantum physics, the paradox is resolved by the idea that cause and effect is not always straightforward, and that events can happen without a set order.

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The organism in question is an Ichthyosporean microbe called Chromosphaera perkinsii, and since it has been around for over a billion years, long before the first animals emerged, its existence suggests that life developed the programming for eggs before the eggs themselves.

Life is clever.

Tau.Neutrino said:

SCIENCE said:

what paradox

The chicken or egg paradox is a causality dilemma that asks which came first, the chicken or the egg, and highlights the difficulty of determining cause and effect:

The paradox is based on the observation that all chickens hatch from eggs and all chicken eggs are laid by chickens. Some possible answers to the paradox include:

A mutation occurred: A chicken-like bird laid an egg that was fertilized by a proto-rooster, and the genes from both parents fused to create a chicken.

The egg came first: Egg-laying animals existed before chickens, so the egg came first.

The chicken came first: Only a chicken can lay a chicken egg, so the chicken came first.

The chicken or egg paradox has been used to consider questions about the beginning and end of the world, and to imagine infinity. Philosophers in Ancient Greece first proposed the paradox. In quantum physics, the paradox is resolved by the idea that cause and effect is not always straightforward, and that events can happen without a set order.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

From the article

The organism in question is an Ichthyosporean microbe called Chromosphaera perkinsii, and since it has been around for over a billion years, long before the first animals emerged, its existence suggests that life developed the programming for eggs before the eggs themselves.

Life is clever.

Life at the molecular level must be amazing.

Amoebas are very small.
Oh ah ee oo, there’s absolutely no strife,
Living the timeless life.
I don’t need a wife,
Living the timeless life.
If I need a friend I just give a wriggle,
Split right down the middle.
And when I look there’s two of me,
Both as handsome as can be.
Oh here we go slithering, here we go slithering and squelching on.
Oh here we go slithering, here we go slithering and squelching on.
Oh ah ee oo, there’s absolutely no strife,
Living the timeless life.