2006-06-11 13:40:52 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
chicken
2006-06-11 13:42:06 · answer #1 · answered by cuteman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, this question has an answer. The egg came first, because there were many animals laying eggs before chickens existed.
If you are talking specifically about a chicken egg, then the chicken came first. The first bird that could be called a chicken was derived from an ancestor that was chicken-like. While that first chicken hatched from an egg, that egg was not laid by a chicken, and should be called an egg of whatever that species was. The New York Times is wrong.
2006-06-11 20:45:20 · answer #2 · answered by wordnerd27x 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a very good article about this in the news recently. Basically, scientists have decided that it was the egg, in the body of an animal from which chickens evolved. That egg was the result of evolution into a chicken.
2006-06-11 20:43:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken. Unlike your other answerers I have reasons. If the egg came first, it couldn't have survived, what chicken would fertilize it? The chicken came first, birthed a rooster, and had an egg with her own son So on...
2006-06-11 20:46:23 · answer #4 · answered by Bri 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a good one..And i've came up with an answer for that one...Simple.
For there to have been a Chicken, they're had to be an egg. For they're to have been an egg, they're had to be a chicken..
I think it's a trick question made to create controversy..Lol.
2006-06-12 06:10:07 · answer #5 · answered by fraudulent_messiah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some one ask this same question 3 days ago, my answer is the same for you as for them ," if you believe in the bible the chicken is the only answer you'll accept , if you don't then the egg did because whatever bird that laid the first egg that hatched into a chicken wasn't quite a chicken"
2006-06-11 20:51:22 · answer #6 · answered by joegossum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the egg was around several billion years before the chicken. Fish lay them
then one fish evolved in to land animal
one of these evolved in to dinosaurs
one of these into birds
one of these into chickens
One bird laid a mutant. This was the first chicken
When this chicken laid it's first egg, that was the first chicken egg.
2006-06-11 20:44:33 · answer #7 · answered by mofuonamotorcycle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the first chicken did not come from an egg. it came from GOD. Then God made the rooster and it boinked the chicken and then it laid the first egg and it hatched to be another chicken.
SO the chicken had to be first.
I do not know why this question comes up so often and nobody figures it our. maybe it is a koan to make you think? hmmmm
2006-06-11 20:44:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was answer to this recently. Look it up on the New York Times website. The answer is the egg, because mutations in genetic code once an animal is born doesn't really happen.
2006-06-11 20:42:42 · answer #9 · answered by presidentrichardnixon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the egg. then it hatched. then it became a full grown chicken. then the chicken had been blessed with babies. which came out to be eggs.
2006-06-11 20:43:44 · answer #10 · answered by teresanguyen7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the chickens evolved as we all did from primordial ooze and so I would say the chicken, in some form, came first.
2006-06-11 20:42:48 · answer #11 · answered by carole 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋