people have always been asking me, what comes first! and i would like to know what you guys think!
2006-07-31 09:03:22 · 22 answers · asked by Maya 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Dinosaurs laid eggs long before there were chickens.
2006-07-31 09:08:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easy: The egg. Why? Because of slight genetic mutations. The original creature that gave rise to the chicken was not a chicken but the eggs that were hatched by each changing generation were changing towards the chicken we know today. Up until a point where the egg that hatched the chicken we know today was laid by a descendant of the chicken that no longer exists.
2006-07-31 17:35:12 · answer #2 · answered by Mark C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg, a species does not change when it goes from embryo to adult. Thus one can conclude that the first chicken had to come from the first chicken egg. And its parent must have been a protochicken and laid a mutated egg resulting in the first chicken.
2006-07-31 16:07:54 · answer #3 · answered by trafficer21 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.answers.com/chicken%20or%20egg
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 get a job.
2006-08-03 08:56:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chicken. The egg evolved from the chicken.
2006-08-01 02:54:59 · answer #5 · answered by KrazyK784 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What ever you order first, comes first. (Well... in a restaurant.)
Egg is the answer to your question. Because there were many other egg laying creatures in this world before a hen (chicken) was ever born. (You didn't ask whether 'the chicken or the chicken egg'.)
2006-07-31 16:19:09 · answer #6 · answered by amiladm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg will not hatch without a chicken to sit on it. The chicken came first.
2006-07-31 16:06:25 · answer #7 · answered by Brianman3 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chicken. God created the chicken before the egg.
2006-07-31 16:04:53 · answer #8 · answered by mthtchr05 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First came chicken only. After that came egg.
2006-07-31 22:21:11 · answer #9 · answered by praveenvis 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Egg. That's why it's a breakfast food and the chicken is eaten later in the day ;-)
2006-07-31 16:07:02 · answer #10 · answered by journey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first chicken hatched from an egg laid by a proto-chicken.
2006-07-31 17:35:32 · answer #11 · answered by Stewart H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋