2006-08-30 09:48:44 · 17 answers · asked by cough cough 4 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
The egg.
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."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/
2006-09-02 16:51:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
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?
2006-08-31 03:15:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken. If the egg came first how would it survive. The baby chicken wouldn't have anyone to guide it or nurture it.
2006-08-30 09:56:10 · answer #3 · answered by PHILLYGUY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who cares? The egg has a chicken in it.
2006-08-30 09:52:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, come on....it is easy. But before that you want the answer from which point of view? I mean from scientific or relegious perspective? Accourding to the latter, it is the chicken. because God didn't create Egg. However from scietific angle, it is the egg which happend first. Becuase, the development of life is from smaller form (single cell) to the higher level of organism.
And remember egg is sigle cell.
2006-08-30 10:07:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All life forms re-tell the story of evolution from single cells to full organisms through the process of embryonic development.
In this sense, the egg really did come first.
2006-08-30 09:55:40 · answer #6 · answered by Todd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the egg. eggs are served for breakfast, and chicken is served at lunch or dinner. therefore, the egg comes first.
2006-08-30 11:42:32 · answer #7 · answered by Stand-up Philosopher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the Chicken
2006-08-30 09:54:04 · answer #8 · answered by Freshmen 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken came first!!!
2006-08-30 09:55:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
egg, and somehow the chicken came out of it....
2006-08-30 09:54:48 · answer #10 · answered by monebabsy928 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋