2006-11-02 00:00:12 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Birds
The tadpole thing that the chickens evolved from came first - like in the Guinness advert!
2006-11-02 00:11:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The question as it stands asks "which came first the chicken or the egg?" and really should have been "which came first an egg laying creature or the egg?"
As it stands assuming that creatures that lay eggs already eggist (getit) the egg had to have come first because the chicken would not have existed until the first one had hatched and through cross breeding, mutation and evolution a chicken would eventually be hatched.
It is unlikely that an egg laying creature changed species (to a chicken) in order to lay the egg that another chicken came out off but i suppose possible.
Now as for the other question, the egg laying creature would have to have come first through mutation (evolution) before the first egg could have been laid.
NOW it is possible that the first egg laying creature was infact a chicken, so the answer to the original question would be a chicken!
Do we have a definition of a chicken ?
2006-11-02 00:22:56 · answer #2 · answered by Tempest 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh dear this is a wearisome old question which, for some reason people keep asking. Just to clarify the situation for you I will try and settle the matter.
Life began with primitive single cell life forms. We do not know how this started maybe some sort of god or superpower set in motion but the important thing is that it did start that way. These single cell creatures reproduced by splitting into two creatures and one time the two halves stayed joined and we had a two cell creature. This process evolved until you had primitive multicell creatures but at this stage they still reproduced by splitting off a single cell. This was the start of the egg and today a Ostrich egg is the largest single cell life form in existence. So to answer your question if a double cell creature split off a single cell then one could call that a primitive egg so the creature came first. On the other hand the original single cell creatures that just divided into two could be refered to as eggs in their own right so in that case the egg came first. Your choice
2006-11-02 00:13:56 · answer #3 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It has recently been argued that the egg came first. If you accept the theory of evolution, then you will be aware that each breed of creature evolved from something less evolved or advanced. Therefore - some chicken like creature must have laid the 1st egg that was in fact the 1st chicken as we know them today. So the parent which was not a 100% chicken laid an egg which was the chicken we have today.
2006-11-02 00:02:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it was the chicken. What would be the point of an eggshell, if not to protect a young growing chick? Besides,,,in both fish and reptiles, certain species lay eggs and others give live birth. You have to get the toy, before you get the toy-box. And the toy-box is just a luxury.
2006-11-02 00:15:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol...this question will go on and on in the history of man but if i was to answer i would say the chicken. but then again the chicken had to come from the egg and also something had to lay the egg...hmmmmmm
the hell with it, Chicken it is!
2006-11-02 00:08:46 · answer #6 · answered by mistatnn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you accept dinosaurs, you can say that the egg came first because all those dinosaur eggs came before earth saw any chicken eggs.
2006-11-02 00:10:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg came even before chickens were invented
2006-11-02 00:09:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
neither God made the Chicken with an egg in side it so they came at the same time
2006-11-02 02:37:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken, coz the chicken had to lay the egg.
2006-11-02 00:02:59 · answer #10 · answered by Fox 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋