Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Question

My missus reckons it was "whichever one was the male!".

I thought it depended which was most aroused and received the most attention form the other.

Do you condone this type of cross breed interaction or do you think trying to cross a chicken with an egg was irresponsible?

Answer 1

Well I'm shocked as to how many people actually understood the question!

As for an answer well, If the egg didn't belong to that particular chicken it wouldn't be incest therefore less irresponsible!

Answer 2

Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said."Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."
The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents."I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said."If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs." oh fcuk it read the reaport

Answer 3

The egg, obviously. The chcken is a bird, only quite recently evolved. Ovulation, as a process is much older, dinosaurs had eggs, as did most vertebrates before them.

Even when examined on a simple linear scale, an almost Linnaean extrapolation for simplicity, the egg, as concept exists before the first of any kind known as 'chicken' hatched from it.

You are better off asking the question, when did the chicken first speciate from it's last common ancestor?

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

The Egg came first
Reason
The first ever chicken hatched from an egg
However the egg was laid by a predecessor of the chicken which had not completely evolved into the chicken as we know it
The genetic mutation of it's offspring being the first of it's kind

Ta da !

Answer 6

I do believe it was the egg because something like a dodo (yes yes it's just an example) laid an egg and over years evolved into the chicken through environmental change and mating of different species....therefore the chicken was a consequence.

Just a thought.....

Answer 7

The egg. The idea is whatever was supposed to evolve into a chicken would've layed an egg which contained whatever we would class as a chicken today.

Answer 8

The egg will have come first. As chickens come out of eggs it is very possible that the chicken was a mutation of a previous creature...say for instance dodos; egg mutated and resulting offspring was a chicken.

Now did the egg or the dodo come first....hhhmmmmm

Answer 9

Definitely the egg.
Dinosaurs and other reptiles were laying eggs long before chickens came on the scene!

Answer 10

Well definitely the egg coz cell came first and the egg i a cell
OR
the cell became the chicken that gave eggs ---- u decide