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But where is the cutoff between reptile and chicken? Given how gradual it must've been, we can therefore posit that chicken's ancestors were themselves chicken. What came first, the reptile or the egg?


The egg.

But it looks like phylotypic animal body plans may have originated in cell aggregates before the development of the egg:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jez.b.21417


the evolutionary chicken of Theseus


Chickens are birds and therefore dinosaurs.

Therefore instead of Chicken of Theseus, I propose Chicken of Thesaurus.


> I propose Chicken of Thesaurus

Which itself is surely evolved from Chicken of Thesea.

And, consequently, canned tuna.




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