im not really sure what came first and it really annoys me not knowing
2006-09-14 21:06:10 · 34 answers · asked by danielleveale 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Beyond all Doubts - the egg. Eggs are single cells and unicellular organisms were the first to inhabit this planet. So EGG rules!
Even if we look at evolution through Darwin Theory - there would have been an ancestor to the hen - and that ancestor was laying eggs as a method of reproduction - so whenever the first - present day species showed existence, it was obviously from an egg.
2006-09-14 21:10:51 · answer #1 · answered by Prewittz 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The first chicken was born from an egg produced by and fertilized by two creatures that were not quite chickens. Neither had the complete genes of a chicken but their genes combined in the egg had all the genes necessary for the first "official" chicken. There had to be several such eggs from the courtship so that the first chicken could find a mate and pass on the genes, right? Therefore, the egg(s) came before the chicken and the rest is history (chicken soup!).
2006-09-15 00:52:43 · answer #2 · answered by Kes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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?". Since both the chicken and the egg create the other in certain circumstances (a chicken emerges from an egg; an egg is laid by a chicken) it is ambiguous which originally gave rise to the other. Purely logical attempts to resolve the dilemma result in an infinite regress, since an egg was caused by a chicken, which was caused by an egg, etc. Since every chicken originates from its egg, it seems obvious the egg came first. Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life. The solution may require an examination of syntax and may rely on verification from advances in modern genetic science. When used in reference to difficult problems of causality, the chicken and egg dilemma is often used to appeal to the futility of debate and lay it to rest.
History of the problem
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 humorous.
2006-09-16 20:14:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in the Darwin theory of evolution then the chicken probably came first and then the egg. Try and figure it out by yourself. There is a logical answer.
2006-09-14 21:08:53 · answer #4 · answered by wunderkind 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question has been asked so many times that I would think even yahoo's poor filters would have popped up the others. The egg came first, fish and reptiles lay eggs, avians came later.
2006-09-14 21:16:32 · answer #5 · answered by jadeaaustin 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
chiken. the eggs simply passes on the gene of the chicken. but without the chiken, where does the gene comes from ?
at this point you would ask where the chicken comes from. simple : evolution.
some bird (god knows what kind of bird) slowly evolved into a chicken and after being evolved completely, the chicken lays an egg and there u have it
2006-09-14 21:10:55 · answer #6 · answered by wanderingyouth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg! From something that wasn't quite a chicken.
2006-09-15 09:20:54 · answer #7 · answered by bo nidle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chicken, of course!
The way we are put together and made. For example, each individual cell in our bodies contains enough knowledge equilivant to 10 encylopedias.
The complexity of our brain, thought process and feelings (that otherwise cannot be explained) suggests a Designer or Creator, if you like at work.
2006-09-14 22:05:43 · answer #8 · answered by lelinafed 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg came first.
A genetic mutation caused an egg to be laid instead of a fully developed animal.
From that mutation hatched a young chick who passes on the mutation to its offspring. Now the chicken is born.
2006-09-14 21:16:21 · answer #9 · answered by PollyPocket 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that after selective genetic evolution the egg would have come be four the chicken as it slowly evolved from some thing else.
2006-09-14 21:14:12 · answer #10 · answered by Tam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋