what came first the chicken or the egg?

Question

or was the chicken made by different spiecies of birds mating and the rusult was a chicken therefore making the egg come first. what do you think. please give details.

Answer 1

LONDON, England -- It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?

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."

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.

Answer 2

the concept of evolution states that species change over the years with the help of mutation and sexual replica. on the grounds that deoxyribonucleic acid would properly be changed in user-friendly words earlier beginning, it would properly be argued that a mutation must have taken position at theory or interior of an egg such that a creature reminiscent of a poultry, yet no longer a poultry, laid the first poultry eggs. those eggs then hatched into chickens that inbred to provide a residing inhabitants.for this reason, in this basic, both the poultry and the type of its egg developed concurrently from birds that, at the same time as no longer of an same correct species, gradually became further and added like present-day chickens over the years.

Answer 3

Those who believe the Biblical account of creation know that the chicken came first because the Bible says that God created mature animals, those capable of reproduction.

Also, if the egg came first, what sat on the nest to keep it warm? Mother hens show (teach) the young how to find food. Assuming the egg came first, and assuming it hatched and survived without the mother giving it warmth, what taught it how to eat?

Answer 4

I read a science report that said the Chicken came first then the egg. Because there had to a chicken to lay the egg.

Answer 5

chicken

on creation God created all animals first before the reproduce, therefore the chicken came first before the egg

Answer 6

this has been asked so many times!!! God created the animals,so the chicken came first,then the rooster,THEN the EGG.

Answer 7

Egg came first.
They proved it scientifically.

Answer 8

lame

Answer 9

fire to cook them with

Answer 10

uhh??