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Eggs Predated Chickens

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Which came first, chicken or egg? Scientists crack age-old debate

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Scientists from Geneva University say the building blocks of female reproductive cells eggs appeared long before chickens evolved.

They analysed a single-celled species called Chromosphaera perkinskii that was discovered in 2017 in Hawaiian marine sediments.

Discovery suggests that the genetic programs responsible for embryonic development the process by which a fertilised egg develops into an embryo - were already present before the emergence of animal life.

Nature, therefore, would have possessed the genetic tools to 'create eggs' long before it 'invented chickens'.

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