2007-02-21 04:19:24 · 13 answers · asked by ***Lily*** 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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.
"The egg came first.
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."
2007-02-21 09:37:48 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The chicken came first. Without the chicken to fertile the egg no matter how many eggs we had we would have no chickens
2007-02-21 05:40:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God populated the Earth with animals not eggs. The chicken came first.
2007-02-21 04:27:29 · answer #3 · answered by Question Addict 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the Chinese usually say "this is a chicken-first or egg-first question" when they mean something that does not have a definite answer. So, go figure.
2007-02-21 04:54:09 · answer #4 · answered by Susan C. 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
egg first.
Egg is a term for a form of reproduction entity. Egg exists even for prehistorical animal species.
Chicken is a term we used for a specific bird we today consume. The evolutionary ancestor of chicken did not call chicken.
Therefore, egg "exists" prior to "chicken".
2007-02-21 04:27:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'd say the chicken came first. Lol.
2007-02-21 04:21:37 · answer #6 · answered by Nikksta 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The egg.
2007-02-21 04:33:14 · answer #7 · answered by Sara 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Chicken probably evolved from some little dinosaur
2007-02-21 04:27:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
who cares, your gonna enjoy some fried chicken or some scrambled eggs sooner or later.
2007-02-21 04:23:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am damn sure chicken came first.
2007-02-21 04:57:47 · answer #10 · answered by goodbye 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋