2006-11-04 16:44:34 · 35 answers · asked by Joseph_G 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
as some others have said the answer is the 'egg'. the reason to elaborate on the others - even if you do not believe in evolution all living things adapt and that means their generations 10 or even 100 times removed from them will be different (the proof is that you and your sibling or parents are not identical; the proof is the diversity of life around us). so the first living organisms reproduced by budding off and regneration. it seems reasonable to say that under harsh conditions some of these budders decided (not consciously) to bud off seeds or cysts or spores that could germinate when conditions were ideal. thus the first eggs. where an egg is a single cell that carries genetic information from its parent(s); the egg may be with out a shell as in several microbes or humans (placentals) or may have a protective layer as in vertebrate egg layers or any other organisme that releases its germ cells into a harsh environment. So the egg came first, but perhaps after the first living organisms. The precursor to the chicken i.e. some reptile like bird probably laid eggs and probably had little parental care as far as incubation is concerned (just an idea). even if it had parental care the parent of the first chicken was not a chicken rather another extinct group of birds or some stalk of reptile like birds. and the chicken that you know today is not the same as what we would like to call the first chicken. Infact the first chickens were probably tastier and hopefully bigger, but with tougher meat as with most wild hens.
egg first.
chicken egg after some chicken.
chicken after several half million years (to be safe) of adaptation.
2006-11-04 17:12:03 · answer #1 · answered by shreyas_krishnan 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Actually, the egg came first. The problem with this question is one of semantics. It says "chicken or egg"----- it does NOT say chicken or chicken egg. Eggs were around for a long time before chickens came on the scene! Eggs came first, chickens much much later. The way the question is stated, it has to be the egg. You can take this answer to the bank!
2006-11-04 16:53:00 · answer #2 · answered by price7204 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Chicken
2006-11-04 16:48:52 · answer #3 · answered by reaching ♥ you 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken "came" in the egg
2006-11-04 16:50:10 · answer #4 · answered by High? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Obviously the egg came first. Chickens need to be eggs before they actually can become a chicken.
2006-11-04 16:48:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Chicken.
2006-11-04 16:48:46 · answer #6 · answered by JustJane 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Egg long before chickens
2006-11-04 16:53:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The chicken because what made the egg !
2006-11-04 16:48:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The rooster came first, then the chicken. The egg showed up later.
2006-11-04 16:48:04 · answer #9 · answered by Mental Floss 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Egg
2006-11-04 16:49:19 · answer #10 · answered by Keanu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋