difficult huh?
2007-01-16 01:33:29 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Wow! What an original question!
The egg
2007-01-16 01:37:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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."
2007-01-16 01:37:44 · answer #2 · answered by davelibby321 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chicken
2007-01-19 20:04:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chickens
2007-01-16 01:56:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about ...
A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face and the egg is frowning and looking a bit pissed off. The egg mutters, to no-one in particular, "Well, I guess we answered THAT question!"
2007-01-16 03:55:00 · answer #5 · answered by ♪ Jackielynn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken.
2007-01-16 01:37:33 · answer #6 · answered by Jo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's definately the egg, cuz there has to be a egg in order to get a chicken.
2007-01-16 01:38:18 · answer #7 · answered by unique_angel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken.. who do you think layed the egg.....
2007-01-16 01:38:09 · answer #8 · answered by ceemagiclydia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think is the lizard that come first
after thousand years they change into chicken that can lay
egg
2007-01-16 01:52:36 · answer #9 · answered by kimht 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rooster came first!
2007-01-16 02:26:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋