what came first the chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

The Rooster

Answer 2

It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics, and pub bores through the ages. 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

Answer 3

The question is what came first chicken or egg ( not chicken egg but EGG) chickens aren't dat old really and eggs came from fish when nothing was even walking on land yet. So eggs came before chickens And I would like mine sunny up up please

Answer 4

The egg. That is to say, the first chicken came from an egg, but what laid that egg? I believe a better way to ask would be, "Which came first, the dinosaur or the egg?"
Going back further you have to ask, "Where did procaryotes come from?
I'm not going back any further because that's left up to oppinion.

It's evolution, baby.

Answer 5

Well, Studies have shown that life started with a single cell organism. This was figured by the adaptation that they grew to multiple cellular which were mammals. So the correct answer would be "The chicken came before the egg.

Answer 6

Egg come first cos' chicken is inside the egg.

Answer 7

The egg>

Answer 8

The egg

Answer 9

God first made the chicken and the rooster. Then came the egg.

Answer 10

Since it needs a chicken to lay an egg, and birds developed from reptiles, it has to be the chicken.

Answer 11

Of course, the chicken (parent) came first. God created all
animals, and gave them the ability to lay eggs or
have babies, which then became 2nd to the parent.