which came first, the chicken, or the egg?

Answer 1

The EGG... Reptiles came first, then birds, then mammals.... And reptiles LAY eggs!! Therefore the EGG came before the birds (in this case the chicken).

Answer 2

In this case, the egg is not assumed to be a chicken egg. In effect this changes the question to: "Which came first, a chicken or any egg".

From a cellular biology point of view this question can be answered quite easily. The egg came first because any female sex cell is called an egg.

If the egg is defined structurally as the hard shelled thing, and the chicken a feather covered animal, the answer is still simple. Evolutionary scientists believe the first hard shell egg was the amniotic egg laid around 300 million years ago, and was laid by the animal who was the link between amphibians and reptiles. One of the first dinosaurs that we know had feathers was the Archaeopteryx, and came much later. Modern birds would not arise until 150 million years ago, descending from theropod dinosaurs.

In this case, the first chicken must have been the mutated offspring of a proto-chicken that laid the egg containing the first true chicken. In any case, this creature hatched from a recognizable egg. After all, the question is purposefully ambiguous -- it is not, "Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?"

Answer 3

This is a question often asked but very simple to answer, the chicken as we know it came second, the egg it came from was a product of two similar birds which combined their DNA to make the egg. Even now people are breeding different types of chicken which all start from an egg in the same way.

Answer 4

According to a literal interpretation of Genesis, the chicken. The animals came first, then they had eggs.

According to biology, the egg. An animal always has the same DNA as its egg. But when two animals mate, they produce a zygote with slightly different DNA. So whatever point you say is sufficiently "chicken-like" must have changed between the parents and the egg, not between the egg and the chicken.

Answer 5

The chicken. Chickens could have produced live births but the need to produce lots of offspring at once made eggs the logical choice for chickens, thus chickens choose eggs as the means of birth and thus the chicken came first!

Answer 6

The Chicken

Answer 7

The egg. The chicken didn't evolve until millions of years later. Dinosaurs laid eggs, and there weren't any chickens (as we know the modern version of the bird) around back then.

Answer 8

The chicken without the chicken there would be no egg!

Answer 9

The chicken.

Answer 10

The first thing will be the chicken as god has created this world. He has created animals and not eggs at the beginning says cristian mythology, and i accept it.