I really don't know the answer ....which did come 1st? 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?". 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.

Answer 2

The answer is the same as last time this was asked.

A non-chicken bird (believed to be a jungle guinea fowl) laid an egg. The bird that hatched from the egg happen to have chicken-like properties that made it very successful in staying alive and getting food and attracting a mate. Some of its offspring had similar properties.Those of its children who were better at the chicken characteristics again were more successful. Eventually they evolved into the ones we recognize as a kind of chicken today because the losers died and the winners prevailed.

Once chickens were domesticated people chose the ones that they wanted to survive and killed the other losers. They bred them for better meat and more eggs by choosing among the random variants to find the ones they preferred.

Answer 3

Technically, it was the egg, although not the eggs we enjoy today. There are fossilised remains of dinosaur eggs that are millions of years old, much older in fact than the earliest chicken.

Chances are, the very first 'chicken' came from an egg belonging to some sort of reptile or other early form of bird... it was an evolutionary step towards a land-dwelling creature, rather than one that might have lived primarily in swamps or marshland.

Of course, if you're a devout Christian, you might argue otherwise, as Genesis states that all creatures were created as they are now, in order to help Adam look after the garden of Eden. In which case, the chicken was made first, with the capacity to later produce eggs.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Chicken,who said egg?

Answer 5

The egg. The egg would have been laid by a close relative of the chicken - through genetic deformations/evolution the egg would then produce a chicken, even though the mother wasn't a chicken.

Answer 6

The egg. Egg laying organisms have been around for a lot longer than chickens.

Answer 7

i imagine it replaced into the hen... imagine about it the hen did not in basic terms pop up onto earth with a *poof*(however if it did the hen might want to nevertheless have come first)... It had to have advanced from something. So the 2d it reached one hundred% hen it would want to were the first hen no count number what number eggs it had layed before that... or you would possibly want to seem at it a diverse way. The question not in any respect specifys what type of egg. it would want to signify a dinosaur egg or in basic terms the first egg ever layed, in which case the egg got here first.

Answer 8

The egg evolved long before the chicken and ancient birds eventually evolved into chickens, so the last bird before the modern chicken laid the egg that became the modern chicken- hence the egg came first.

Answer 9

Scientifically the egg came first as the egg contains the DNA of the chick inside, rather than the mother.

Answer 10

Neither and both.

Both chickens and eggs are the product of millions of years of natural evolution occuring on this planet. The question is, what started off all the evolution which led to the chicken and the egg?