2006-11-28 05:59:54 · 11 answers · asked by ♥Rabeka♦ 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Lauren:
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."
The debate, which may come as a relief to those with argumentative relatives, was organized by Disney to promote the release of the film "Chicken Little" on DVD.
2006-11-28 06:04:03 · answer #1 · answered by baltiboy 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The egg came before the chicken but the chicken came before the chicken egg, because the egg where the chicken came from wasn't a chicken egg but some other species that mutated into a chicken.
2006-11-28 14:11:22 · answer #2 · answered by Gustav 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eggs~! the dinosaurs had eggs with their children in. chickens came after that. however a chicken egg unfertilized came after the chicken because the chicken evolved from species like the dinosaurs and so develop their own reproduction system.
2006-11-28 14:06:32 · answer #3 · answered by shadow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Question may sound odd, but is not. Its a popular question, which is tough to answer, but not impossible. Its just that the answer isnt that famous.
The Answer is.......... C O C K !!!!!!!!!!!!
Rooster or whatever, you call the male fowl. Coz even if the Chicken came first she needs to be impregnated. And egg needs a mother to be hatched. So there is the answer!!!!!
2006-11-28 14:11:42 · answer #4 · answered by maseehtheking 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken, if God had created the egg first
there would have been no hen to set on it to hatch it.
2006-11-28 14:07:39 · answer #5 · answered by deltaxray7 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg according to evolution.
Odd question...
2006-11-28 14:03:54 · answer #6 · answered by Destination Wine and Spirits 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the egg, from machines
2006-11-28 14:07:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fish!
Does it really matter what came first? The real question here is which one taste better?
2006-11-28 14:07:05 · answer #8 · answered by thrill5eeker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check this links for Detailed Answer..
http://eggchickenfirst.blogspot.com/
http://www.squidoo.com/chicken_egg/
2006-11-29 20:14:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its the egg..
i guess God will not create eggs for him to lay on?
2006-11-28 14:02:29 · answer #10 · answered by mystery moo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋