2007-03-26 19:18:27 · 23 answers · asked by Mike M. 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
The egg...dinosaurs were laying eggs way before chickens came around.
2007-03-26 19:23:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 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."
2007-03-27 02:27:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The chicken came with an egg in side of it.
2007-03-27 02:21:59 · answer #3 · answered by Shawn J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this always hurts my head. you have to have a egg first to have a chicken but you need the chicken to lay the egg. :( i think it was the chicken that came first
2007-03-27 02:33:45 · answer #4 · answered by cat 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chicken beacuse there had to be a chicken to lay the first egg.
2007-03-27 02:22:28 · answer #5 · answered by fun for life 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God could just as easily have made the first chicken as an egg, and then induced it to hatch. It doesn't have to be that he made a chicken, fully formed. I don't see any reason to believe one over the other.
2007-03-27 02:30:01 · answer #6 · answered by Surely Funke 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joke forum aside, I would guess the egg. Chickens like most species is an evolution of mutations, therefore the first chicken (as we know them) was the result of a mutation of other chicken like birds?
2007-03-27 02:23:45 · answer #7 · answered by Rainman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw an awesome cartoon based on this... Chicken and Egg in bed and Egg smoking a cigarette, with Chicken going "Well, I guess we settled that one!"
2007-03-27 02:22:39 · answer #8 · answered by Taliesin Pen Beirdd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken and egg!! Ok, what's the answer?
2007-03-27 02:54:36 · answer #9 · answered by yehaa yahoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it had to be the thing that the chicken evolved from becuz u need two chickens to get an egg
2007-03-27 02:21:42 · answer #10 · answered by TaraLynn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋