2006-11-25 16:00:03 · 22 answers · asked by Tyler G 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Reproduction via eggs came much earlier than chickens.
Now, if you qualify it a little, Which came first hens eggs or hens, then it gets a little more complicated, but egg is still the answer as any mutation or change would not appear until after the hatching.
2006-11-25 17:06:19 · answer #1 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It does sound puzzling at first, but how much does one have to think until one realizes that both chicken and egg must necessarily have come from something that is neither a chicken nor an egg? This answer was knowable centuries before biology came about, yet people assumed there was some unsolvable mystery behind the issue.
The modern chicken is generally believed to be a descendant of "Archaeopteryx", the oldest known bird. This 150 million year old resident of the Jurassic period laid eggs, and at some point of time, evolved into an animal that was one generation away from being a proper chicken.
DNA mutations occur in the early stages of life of organisms. As you know, when new cells divide, the DNA within the nucleus separates nucleotides and duplicates, then two new helix are formed. The amino acids responsible for mitosis are prone to make mistakes to the genetic architecture-- a beautiful system of flaws that cause evolution and diversity in species. It's like the reason why children will look like their parents, but not approximately, they are a combination of both parent's ancestor genetic history and the result of new combinations in the DNA helix.
So according to fossil research, before the chicken was the "proto-chicken" and this bird was almost chicken, but not quite. Well this proto-chicken laid an egg with a mutation, and the interior change of the DNA was enough that the exterior of the new bird could be thought of as a new species.
The first chicken had to hatch from a chicken egg to qualify to be a chicken, so the egg came first.
2006-11-26 16:37:15 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The chicken because according to Aristotle's law of causality that which is actual always proceed that which is potential, since the chicken is already an actual chicken while the egg is still a potential chicken, ergo the chicken came first before the egg.
2006-11-26 00:12:26 · answer #3 · answered by auraming 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Your question is like asking which comes first...daylight or sunset??
Eggs... in the sense that reptiles were laying eggs long before birds appear on earth. But if you are asking specifically about chickens and chicken eggs then I would say that the chicken came first, by Darwin's theory of evolution.
2006-11-26 01:07:52 · answer #4 · answered by thelordparadox 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
technically the egg. fish have been laying eggs thousands of years before chickens even exsisted
i think you should re-state this question. which came first: the chicken or the chicken eggs
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2006-11-26 00:02:55 · answer #5 · answered by BLEHH 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The egg had to come first, unless scientist have found out how to genetically engineer chickens without the egg coming first.
2006-11-26 00:10:56 · answer #6 · answered by Andrew George 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The egg. The mutation had to take place in the developing egg. It couldn't take place in the chicken because it had already been mutated.
2006-11-26 00:03:19 · answer #7 · answered by dawnsdad 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
the Egg... it is liquid Chicken. They are one in the same.
2006-11-26 00:41:50 · answer #8 · answered by Boliver Bumgut 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
chicken...because if it is egg, how can eggs mate with one another? and also the first one that you've said is chicken so i'll go for chicken......lol
2006-11-26 00:07:36 · answer #9 · answered by brandy q 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
chicken, where did the egg come from!
2006-11-26 00:05:01 · answer #10 · answered by manny 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋