Chicken or egg?which one existed first(oldest)?

Question

Does chicken existed first before egg,if it does,where does it came from?

Answer 1

As a chicken is a mutation of another bird, a mutation that remained .. obviously the answer is simple. The egg.

Answer 2

the chicken nugget

Answer 3

if you believe in god chicken because animal  is made before offspring.

but anyway egg is a chickens offspring.

kinda like spunk. lol

hope i helped .

Answer 4

by it's very nature, the egg pre-dates life.  by difinition, an argument could be made that the first spark on life on earth occured in an "egg."

an egg (Latin ovum) is the zygote, haploid cells—usually an ovum from a female and a sperm cell from a male—merge into a single diploid cell called the zygote.  Fertilization (also known as conception, fecundation and syngamy), is fusion of gametes to produce a new organism of the same species.

The modern chicken was believed to have descended from another closely related species of birds, the red junglefowl, but recently discovered genetic evidence suggests that the modern domestic chicken is a hybrid descendant of both the red junglefowl and the grey junglefowl.  Assuming the evidence bears out, a hybrid is a compelling scenario that the egg came before the chicken.  ie. the first chicken egg was laid by a creature that was not a chicken.

Answer 5

The chicken because God made man and woman, and all the animals.

Answer 6

i think chicken is first, cause egg only comes from chicken. now dont think that chicken comes from egg

Answer 7

a circle has no beginning... :) except for those who believe in god, whereby everything has its starting pt and i guess that chicken comes first because it is the god that create the animal. Just like human. Adam was created from the earth/soil and Eve was created from one of Adam's ribs by god's will. Neither of them come from the sperm or ovum or anything like that and they don't even going through the fetus phase. Human reproduction only occurs after that when Adam n Eve had their sons and daughters. So, I assume the similar thing happen for the first animals.

Answer 8

egg was before chicken since egg has potentiality of becoming a chicken but chicken has no potentiality to egg!  also one has to realize that the bird that egged wasn't a chicken yet but was kind of like chicken and evolved slowly to become a chicken. so the answer is the egg. a chicken like bird egged and finally the first chicken was hatched .  peace

Answer 9

Why is it always chicken and egg? Where did any species start if there was no other before it to give birth to it/ lay an egg?

This is the whole creation argument.

Answer 10

I think egg because in evolution organisms don't just change. Traits are passed down through generations. So with that said the pre-chicken had to hatch the modern chicken.

Answer 11

Roast chicken

Answer 12

Wow that's a truly original enquiry, that puts right amongst the top 99.9% of all thinkers.

Answer 13

When God created the world, he created animals and chicken was one of them. Why do you asked about who came first? How come the egg become a chick when there is no hen who will lay on it?

This is a stupid question, isn't it?

Answer 14

the egg. If you believe in evolution (not much of an if i know) then you'll understand that a chicken-like creature would have laid an egg that hatched.. you guessed it.. a chicken!!!

ps good thing to didn't say which came first, it woulda been a troll fest!!

Answer 15

Egg first. If you don't have the egg, where is the chicken?

Answer 16

poached egg....absolutely.

Answer 17

egg, Chickens like all birds are descended from Dinosaurs, the egg can be traced back through the Dino's to fish.

Answer 18

Eggs made chickens just to replicate themselves, so obviously eggs.

Answer 19

If we have to believe in the Bible, it should be the Chicken first. Because it is written that God created Animals and Birds.  No reference of eggs.

I think that the Biologist might think it is the Egg first.  Being the prime cell.

Answer 20

In literal scientific terms the answer is simple; eggs long predate chickens. However; how long before depends on your definition of 'egg'. The most basic definition of egg is the larger of the two gametes produced exclusively by the female in all gender based lifeforms.

So if we evolve the question to become which came first the gender based lifeform or the larger gamete [as opposed to primitive life with same size gametes] the answer I believe can be deceptively simplistic. Of course we may disect the answer with semantics and find a way to disagree.. our meanings within language evolve through time and culture. However, as the gender based lifeform is generally defined by its ability to produce a gamete larger that that of the opposite s*x, once we may agree on how much larger the gamete needs to be [lets say 10% larger for arguments sake] to constitute it being called an egg; then the answer is that its approximately a draw. This is so because the random mutation needed from one generation to the next which resulted in the size difference between the two gametes crossing our threshold of definition pinpoints that the change had to occur within a single generation. The rationality for this is simple. The first female produced the first egg but the first female is defined by her ability to lay the egg. Therefore she must lay the egg to be defined as female: a draw.

However one could suggest that the genetic mutation needed to produce the first [by ones definition] female occured one generation previous to the laying of the egg and therefore its a slight win for the female.. but she would still have to lay an egg before anyone could tell. Therefore even though its a bit of a draw [the bookies would love that] its a slight metaphorical win for the chicken.

Just a note: I have derived my male/female definition from Dawkins "The Selfish Gene" in which he defines the sexes only by the difference in gamete size and not by anatomy or appearence.

Edit: Actually you could go one step further if you were to define any gamete as an egg. Then the question could be rephrased "Which came first, the gene based lifeform or the gamete?" I would suggest that again in this situation it is a draw based on the idea that *all lifeforms are defined by their ability to reproduce via genetic replication*. Therefore the 'immaculate conception' of life itself [please excuse the religious connotation] occured at an instance when the first life [metaphorical chicken] produced the first gamete [egg]. Before this point the first life was not alive [by definition] as it could not reproduce until the point which it did. Therefore if there is a point when gene based life began in the universe both parent and child became defined by this initial birth process.