what came first the chicken or the egg?????????

Answer 1

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.

The earliest reference to the dilemma is found in Plutarch's Moralia, in the books titled "Table Talk," in a series of arguments based on questions posed in a symposium. Under the section entitled, "Whether the hen or the egg came first," the discussion is introduced in such a way as to suggest that the origin of the dilemma was even older:

"...the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world..."

Various answers have been formulated in response to the question, many of them humourous.

Answer 2

Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.

Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.

Answer 3

the chicken because dinosaurs came before the chicken, the chicken came after the dinosaurs so therefor the egg came after the chicken, which means the chicken would have to have came before the egg

Answer 4

Lately I read that scientist have determined that the egg came first.
My favorite answer to this has always been, after the teacher asked a class it, a girl answered 'The chicken'. When asked why she thought so she said 'Because I don't believe that god would lay an egg'.

Answer 5

Chicken and then the chicken had the egg

Answer 6

actually the egg. think about the evolution of animal. There was a species of bird out there millions and millions of years ago that was evolving into what is now the chicken, meaning that as the bird was evolving the eggs it was laying wee hatching the eveolved species, until eventualy it evolved into what is now the chicken.

Answer 7

The chicken.

Answer 8

The chicken.

Answer 9

a dinosaur laid an egg that hatch into a chicken dino cross breed and throu eveloution it evloved into the chicken that taste that we know and eat=) so the egg

Answer 10

Crispy Fried Chicken!! Baawak a bak bwak bawk!!!