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2007-03-04 17:20:57 · 15 answers · asked by Bianca 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Please state why to support your answer!
2007-03-04 17:35:00 · update #1
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."
2007-03-04 23:20:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question isn't specific enough. First off, are we talking about a chicken egg? If we're not talking about specifically chicken eggs, then eggs definitely came first, because nearly every animal hatches from an egg of some sort.
However, if we're talking about a chicken egg, then the answer of the question is based on your definition of "Chicken Egg."
A chicken egg is either:
a) An egg laid by a chicken
b) An egg that contains a chicken embryo
c) An egg laid by a chicken that contains a chicken embryo
If your definition is "a," an egg laid by a chicken, then the answer to the question would be that a chicken came first. The only way there could be a chicken egg, according to your definition, is if a chicken laid it. So, the chicken came first.
If your definition is "b," an egg that contains a chicken embryo, then the answer to the question would be that the egg came first. An ancestory of the chicken, that through evolution, was very chicken-like, but not fully a chicken, laid the egg that contained an embryo of what is the first chicken.
If your definition is "c," an egg that was laid by a chicken and contains a chicken embryo, then the answer is a chicken. A very close ancestory of the chicken laid an egg that contained a chicken embryo (but wasn't laid by a chicken). Out came the first chicken, who then laid an egg that would be considered the first chicken egg.
2007-03-05 13:26:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Egg, cause like most things the animals back then would of cross breeded and stuff it then it would of evolved into a chicken!! well i could of explained it more but yas should get it!!!
Remember a lil thing called evolution, there would of had to of been a egg b4 the chicken!!!
Ohh and by the way vovòzinha, roosters dont lay eggs Bahahahaha, so how could of it breed???
2007-03-05 01:37:56 · answer #3 · answered by xXx_AimZ_xXx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I honestly believe the chicken came first, because if the egg came first it would be stillborn. The egg wouldn't get enough warmth.
2007-03-05 01:23:50 · answer #4 · answered by ME!! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was simultaneous...then they both kicked back and had a cigarette. Afterwards the chicken wanted to cuddle and talk about her feelings. The egg just rolled his eyes groaned and fell asleep.
2007-03-05 04:15:44 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken.
2007-03-05 01:24:44 · answer #6 · answered by Death.Note.fan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chicken of course, mutated from another animal and had to adapt its body too lay eggs instead of live young
2007-03-05 01:26:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Egg.
2007-03-05 01:23:35 · answer #8 · answered by peaco1000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i say egg, because you need two chicken to reproduce. god thought that it was easier to make egg rather than having to make two chicken on earth.
2007-03-05 02:13:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're naturalist it started with an egg. But if you're darwinian, it started with the chicken :D
2007-03-05 01:52:11 · answer #10 · answered by aquarian8502 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋