Which came first? The chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

we will never know!

Answer 2

For creationists, the chicken came first, then laid an egg.

For evolutionists, the first chicken egg came from 2 "not-chickens."

It is a question that reveals much about the person and little about the facts.

Answer 3

Scientific answer

According to the theory of evolution, the first modern chicken was the offspring of the last direct ancestor of domestic chickens to not share that classification (likely the Red Junglefowl). Therefore, a non-chicken did, in fact, lay the first chicken egg, i.e., the egg came first.

Answer 4

Chicken with her egg. What will the chicken do in the first place? to take care of her egg. so the answer is both of them.

Answer 5

Chicken or egg? Like a hall of mirrors at the carnival, each attempt at an answer just leads to another question. If the chicken came first, then didn't it hatch from an egg? And if the egg came first, wasn't it laid by a chicken? It's one of those questions that seem unanswerable.

Scientists agree on where chickens came from: In a sense, human beings invented them, just like they invented cows and pigs and other domesticated animals on Old MacDonald's Farm.

If chickens were interested in tracing their family trees, they would need to bone up on some DNA research done in Japan. Every chicken that ever lived can trace its ancestors, say researchers, to a particular subspecies of Red Jungle Fowl in Thailand.

The male Red Jungle Fowl looks a lot like a storybook rooster. But the Jungle Fowl isn't identical to a farm chicken. Unlike chickens, female Red Jungle Fowls have no combs. Another Jungle Fowl peculiarity: After mating season, males replace their bright red and orange ruff with a crop of dull, blackish feathers called "eclipse plumage."

Scientists say eggs--handy miniature incubators of life, nutrients already packed inside--evolved more than 1 billion years ago, in the oceans of Earth. When land animals evolved about 250 million years ago, their eggs had a tough covering to retain moisture on dry land. Egg-layers like amphibians, reptiles, and insects flourished. The first "land eggs" pre-dated chickens by about 249,992,000 years.

So "the egg" may be one answer to the old riddle, but here's another, if a little longer: The chicken came after the bird, the bird came after the dinosaur, the dinosaur came after the egg. And the egg came long after the first single-celled bacteria, the prokaryotes, evolved in the oceans, some 3.5 billion years ago.

Answer 6

The chicken

Answer 7

The chicken, due to the first answered reaffirming the fact that there mut have been a chicken to have laid the egg.

Answer 8

The egg. It was laid by the animal that evolved into the chicken.

Answer 9

Suppose the egg came first.

If this is so, it must have been laid by a chicken.

So, chicken came first.

Proof by contradiction.

Answer 10

You should be asking which came first the dinosaur or the egg.

Answer 11

How does this impact the price of Camel Eggs in Peru?