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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.
[14] Assuming the evidence bears out, a hybrid is a compelling scenario that the chicken egg, based on the second definition, came before the chicken.
You missed the best bit from Wiki. Is that what you call quote mining?
Evolution
Main article:
Evolution
Darwin's theory of
evolution states that species change over time via
mutation and
selection. 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.
[13][14] In this light, both the egg and the chicken evolved simultaneously from birds that were not chickens and did not lay chicken eggs but gradually became more and more like chickens over time.
However, a mutation in one individual is not normally considered a new species. A
speciation event involves the separation of one population from its parent population, so that interbreeding ceases; this is the process whereby domesticated animals are genetically separated from their wild forebears. The whole separated group can then be recognized as a new species.
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.
[15] Assuming the evidence bears out, a hybrid is a compelling scenario that the chicken egg, based on the second definition, came before the chicken.
So the explanation is that two birds that were already laying eggs hybridized and that explains how egg laying 'evolved'...NOT!
As spoken to above it takes 'egg laying' to set in a population before speciation, as such, occurs.
This topic appears to be similar to the half wing arguments re birds and how sea creatures evolved air breathing lungs to land and then re evolved aquatic features to go back to the sea eg Whales. Evos have come up with all sorts of strange theories to explain half wings etc and their justifications for evolutionary selection and it all sounds like straw grabbing nonsense.
Figure*1 : Bird-like fossil footprints from the Late Triassic : Nature
This site shows bird footprints in the late triassic.
Access : Bird-like fossil footprints from the Late Triassic : Nature
This research flippantly disregards these bird footprints as some "unknown group of Late Triassic theropods having some avian characters."
Clearly the assumption of therapods having some avian characteristics is born of necessity. Otherwise your whole bird evolution theory flies out the window. There is no evidence to suggest that these footprints are anything less than what they appear to be, footprints of fully formed birds that predate the dinos they alledgedly evolved from. This is what you science heads should be telling the community.
