Chicken and Egg dilemma cracked

"According to Sky News a geneticist, a philosopher and a chicken farmer claim to have finally solved the age-old question:
What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Apparently, it was the egg.

Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.

Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg. "

There goes that old saying...