what came first the chicken or the egg?

Question

i really wanna no

Answer 1

the egg

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Now if your pro-evolutionary theory: The egg
LONDON, England -- It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. 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.Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.
The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.
"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."
The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.
Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.
He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.
"I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.
"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."
Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."The debate, which may come as a relief to those with argumentative relatives, was organized by Disney to promote the release of the film "Chicken Little" on DVD

Now if your pro-divine theory:
The chicken because God created it first.

Answer 4

The egg. There was some ancestor of the chicken that laid mutated eggs, and from those eggs hatched what is known considered a chicken. That's because we already have a neat definition of a chicken so it's quite simple to say that whatever laid the first chicken egg was something related to but not quite a modern chicken.

A more interesting question is, which came first, the EGG-LAYING ANIMAL or the egg, in which case the answer would be the egg-laying animal, because by definition it's impossible for an egg to come from a non-egg-laying animal, right? It had to have come from an egg-laying animal! At the same time, it IS possible for an egg-laying animal to come from something NOT an egg. Think about it: an animal (that didn't come from an egg nor lays eggs itself) gives birth to its young in a non-egg-laying way; but those young have an "i lay eggs" mutation so that when they produce their young, these young are in a primitive eggs! So, the egg-laying animal came first! BUT, those eggs weren't like modern eggs, they were very primitive (because evolution is slow and works by little steps). Then came more evolved egg-laying animals and more evolved eggs until you have modern chickens and modern eggs. But the ORIGINAL was still the egg-laying animal (those with the "i lay eggs" mutation)!

Answer 5

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 6

the Chicken came first. In evolution, new species arise from older species through natural selection (the acquiring of beneficial traits). The chicken probably arose from an older species who couldn't really fly, but also laid eggs. If the egg came first, what would have produced it??

Answer 7

The egg... 1st came reptiles, then birds, then mammals. And we all know reptiles lay eggs...which had to have came before the birds! And we all know a chicken is a bird! So there you have it!

Answer 8

The chicken had to be there to create the egg. God made people and animals, then they reproduced.

Answer 9

The Chicken !

Answer 10

The Egg!!!!