Chicken or the egg

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Invention

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

The chicken or the egg causality dilemma is commonly stated as the question, "which came first: the chicken or the egg?" The dilemma stems from the observation that all chickens hatch from eggs and all chicken eggs are laid by chickens.

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