What came first,the chicken or the egg?

Question

I say the chicken :p

Answer 1

A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is leaning against the headboard smoking a cigarette, with a satisfied smile on its face.
The egg, looking a bit pissed off, grabs the sheet, rolls over, and says "Well, I guess we finally answered THAT question "

Answer 2

It is generally agreed that the chicken came first and the tree does make a sound.

The egg alone on it's own can not survive without nourishment. The chicken, even though requiring nourishment as well, could potentially find food, interbeed with other species to produce offspirng.

The egg alone can do nothing because it requires incubation.

What came first is what has the simplest requirements of reproduction. The egg has all the same requirements as the chicken, plus additional requirements, incubation.

Answer 3

The chicken or the egg is a reference to the causality dilemma which arises from the expression "which came first, the chicken or the egg?". When used in reference to difficult problems, a chicken and egg problem is similar to a Catch 22 situation where something cannot happen until a second thing does, and the second thing cannot happen until the first does. For example, a person might have trouble finding a job without work experience, but to get work experience he/she must have a job.

The earliest reference to the dilemma is found in Plutarch's Moralia, in the books titled "Table Talk," in a series of arguments based on questions posed in a symposium. Under the section entitled, "Whether the hen or the egg came first," the discussion is introduced in such a way as to suggest that the origin of the dilemma was even older:

"...the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world..."
Various answers have been formulated in response to the question, many of them humorous.

As suggested by the alternative definitions and solutions given below, the chicken-or-egg dilemma has multiple semantic variants and can thus be viewed as an exercise in semantics. Regarding at least two of these variants, the field of biology contains decisive contextual information. Although the problem has been around in one form or another for millennia, making it difficult or impossible to know who first "solved" it, the biological information needed to resolve all of the obvious semantic variants has only been available for decades.

A modern analysis covering all of the major variants was authored by Christopher Langan, published in 2001 on the Mega Foundation website [1], and subsequently included in his book of essays [2]. It appeared again in The Improper Hamptonian, was included in abbreviated form in a 2001 Long Island Newsday Q&A column featuring Langan, and was compactly summarized in Langan's 2001 Popular Science interview. Although others may previously have reached similar conclusions, this seems to have been the first time that a definitive analysis appeared in the popular media

Answer 4

Actually this has a real answer. According to the book "Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or so) Absolutely True Tidbits About (mostly) Everything" by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo the egg came first.

According to their research chickens evolved from early Indochina birds called red jungle fowl. Mutations in the jungle fowls eggs produced things more like chickens...these bred with other bird causing more mutations producing todays chicken.

So the eggs have it!

Answer 5

If your talking bout the making of the earth, the chickens are first but if by growth cycle eggs are first.^_^

Answer 6

Chicken comes before egg in the dictionary. ;)

Answer 7

the chicken came first

Answer 8

chicken

Answer 9

the egg

Answer 10

The rooster! and the chicken didn't