What came first? The chicken or the egg?
2006-07-12 05:34:05 · 13 answers · asked by bleed_intuition 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Neither, because a chicken (as we know it today) slowly evolved from previous life, and it's eggs follwed suit.
There is no first, because the line between Chickens and it's genetic ancestors is not that distinct, since species are defined by the ability to procreate. Also, today's chickens are very slightly genetically different then chicken's from 1000 years ago and future chickens, so you'd have to define more closely what you mean by chicken.
2006-07-12 05:55:40 · answer #1 · answered by QFL 24-7 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The egg
There were dinosaur eggs long before there were chickens
You probably mean what came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?
Then the question is what makes a chicken egg a chicken egg, the fact that it hatches a chicken or the fact that a chicken layed it. If it is the latter, then the chicken came first, otherwise the egg came first.
2006-07-12 13:32:57 · answer #2 · answered by bogusman82 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the only possible answer is the egg. Since generational variations occur between mother and offspring, whatever the chicken mutated from had to have been an egg layer. Therefore, the egg was first.
2006-07-12 12:43:21 · answer #3 · answered by Patrick H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess a kind of chicken must have been born in some different way (like humans maybe), then one generation mutated and laid eggs.
You can't have a chicken without a chicken egg though!
2006-07-12 12:40:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is easy you cant have a chicken without the egg
So I say the Chicken
2006-07-12 12:38:29 · answer #5 · answered by genocyber69 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eggs evolved long before chickens
(in other words the ancestors of chickens which were not chickens already developed eggs as part of the devlopment process)
2006-07-12 16:28:49 · answer #6 · answered by anonacoup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say the chicken
2006-07-12 13:33:36 · answer #7 · answered by Muffin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a duck's egg got mutated and then the chicken hatched
2006-07-12 12:44:41 · answer #8 · answered by Rajan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i eat eggs for breakfast and chicken for dinner so the egg will come first.
but really, i think the QFL247 guy probably has it as right as we'll ever get it...
2006-07-12 18:21:55 · answer #9 · answered by bigsquig401 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chicken
2006-07-12 14:00:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋