what came first the egg or the chicken. whats yr theroy
2006-08-27 12:20:44 · 15 answers · asked by bella 2 in Pets ➔ Birds
Which came first - the chicken or the egg? "The chicken" came first - in the sentence of the question. If the question is phrased differently, the answer is different.
Reframing the question
It could be said that the question simply requires one to know the context. Most people thinking of the question automatically think of the timeline and it is in this manner that both the previous evolutionary theory and religious teachings contexts arise. Other potential contexts are:
* Having looked through a dictionary from front to back, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?
* When you walked through the supermarket, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?
* When reading the menu, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?
2006-08-28 01:23:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
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2006-08-27 12:24:12 · answer #2 · answered by Amanda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believed at first it was the chicken because God made all creatures. But I have been told a different and very believable theory about the answer being the egg. The reason its the egg, in this one person's opinion, is because of the dinosaurs. They came before chickens and so did their eggs.
2006-08-27 12:23:59 · answer #3 · answered by ~T♥ri 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken. Same concept as Adam N Eve. The spern n ova didnt come first. It was the people.
2006-08-27 12:23:56 · answer #4 · answered by WORLD CLASS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 points
2006-08-27 12:26:18 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
dinosaurs laid eggs and somehow a chicken came out of one of the dino eggs...
2006-08-27 13:26:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the egg
2006-08-27 13:46:02 · answer #7 · answered by Hello :] 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Chicken .God put animals on this planet. so the chicken
2006-08-27 12:53:45 · answer #8 · answered by lalala 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. it was the t-rex. if you compare the structure of the t-rex and the chicken you will see how very closley related they are.
2006-08-27 12:26:54 · answer #9 · answered by citygirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmm ... it has been asked over 1200 times on YA and it seems it still isn't resolved!!
2006-08-27 12:26:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋