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The modern chicken was believed to have descended from another closely related species of birds, the red junglefowl, but recently discovered genetic evidence suggests that the modern domestic chicken is a hybrid descendant of both the red junglefowl and the grey junglefowl.

Since DNA can be modified only before birth, a mutation must have taken place at conception or within an egg such that an animal similar to a chicken, but not a chicken, laid the first chicken egg. --- But if the bird that laid that "first chicken egg" was "not a chicken," then how could the egg have been a chicken egg? See the related links below for more information and an in-depth article about this classic question from Answers.com.

Evolution....I guess...

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