factually
Index/Topics/Chicken Egg Paradox

Chicken Egg Paradox

The question of whether the chicken or the egg came first, with a focus on the biological and evolutionary aspects.

Fact-Checks

1 result
Jan 8, 2026

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Science, not parable, settles the old paradox: eggs in general predate chickens by hundreds of millions of years, and even under the narrow biological definition of a “chicken egg” the egg still comes...