What comes first; the chicken or the egg? =D?

Answer 1

chicken

Answer 2

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 3

It was the egg. This question never stated that the egg had to be a chicken's egg. Dinosaur eggs came before chickens. It is a proven fact therefore that the egg came before the chicken.

Answer 4

The only place from which a chicken's egg comes is a hen. LOL.

Have a great evening!

Answer 5

depends from what egg the chicken is from, or if that egg is "the chicken" it could go either way

Answer 6

the egg, technically, had to hatch the first chicken when the evolutionary mother laid it. So, the chicken.

Also, if it's DOMESTIC chicken your talking about, trained chickens came before they laid eggs.

Answer 7

In that distinctive case no person has ever seen finding the actual criminal and blamed the fowl. by means of fact whilst the fowl got here (in strengthen or in time does not result for this reason), got here the egg after which the fowl (or yet another fowl, yet that's a distinctive tale)

Answer 8

A visitor from the planet Zygon drops off a pregnant chicken.
signed,
Tom Cruise

Answer 9

chicken because god created a chicken which laid the egg

Answer 10

chicken