what came first chickens or eggs and could you explain why?

Answer 1

Eggs.
Dinosaur eggs.

Answer 2

Actually, contrary to the rhetorical feel of the question, there is an answer.

Since (we're working with Darwinian logic here) creatures mutate slightly into others as time progresses, the present day 'chicken' must have come from a similar animal just before its time. As such, this similar animal was probably an egg-layer and layed an egg that, instead of its own species, was actually the 'mutated' chicken. As a result of this logic, the egg came first - but not before a relative of the chicken.

Answer 3

The first girl is sooo WRONG! The EGG came first because there were probably 2 OTHER animals who breeded and had an egg which created the CHICKEN. To the first girl on this question, YOU NEED AN EGG TO HATCH A CHICKEN!

Answer 4

Chickens because Eggs only realy became mass market with the invention of the containers to keep em in, chickens were everywhere but if you wanted an egg there were not many supermarkets around at the dawn of time, I guess even adam may have had a chicken but not a box with six eggs in - possibly!!!!

Answer 5

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.

As suggested by the alternative definitions and solutions given below, the chicken-or-egg dilemma has multiple semantic variants and can thus be viewed as an exercise in semantics. Regarding at least two of these variants, the field of biology contains decisive contextual information. Although the problem has been around in one form or another for millennia, making it difficult or impossible to know who first "solved" it, the biological information needed to resolve all of the obvious semantic variants has only been available for decades.

A modern analysis covering all of the major variants was authored by Christopher Langan, published in 2001 on the Mega Foundation website[1], and subsequently included in his book of essays, The Art of Knowing [1]. It appeared again in The Improper Hamptonian [2], was included in abbreviated form in a 2001 Long Island Newsday Q&A column featuring Langan [3], and was compactly summarized in Langan's 2001 Popular Science interview.

A CNN article on May 26, 2006 featured an analysis, according to which the egg came first [2]. The key criteria on which CNN bases its answer, involving relatively recent findings from reproductive and evolutionary biology, are identical to several of those cited in the prior analysis.

Answer 6

The egg came first. this was confirmed earlier this year by scientists.

the theory is that no animal has the ability to change its DNA make up however an egg does. therefore an egg from something else evolved and hatched a chicken.

Answer 7

Well it was the chicken ,yes da chicken , well not really it was a creature which laid an egg , and the strange new creature popped out of the egg , yes a mutant ,a x-mutant , so it laid an egg , uni sexual creature i well presume, well all this develop due to evolution and that's why humans are debating it , was it an amoeba that started it all , was it an egg to?

Answer 8

The egg, obviously, as the first chicken must have hatched from an egg laid by something that wasn't quite a chicken (it's called evolution).

Answer 9

The Chicken came first because you need a chicken to lay the egg.... :-)

Answer 10

The first specimen that came out of evolution similar enough to be called a chicken would've mutated as such after zygotic processes. So it would be an egg.

Answer 11

when i called my farm animals in this morning 06 30 am

the results were

1st place pig closely followed by sheep dog 3rd chicken 4th duck
its now 17 30 pm

and im still waiting for the egg to move