Which came first?

Question

The chicken or the egg??

Answer 1

The Chicken

Answer 2

An egg cannot lay itself.  Therefore, some type of animal must have evolved into an egg laying creature.  Easy.

Answer 3

depends on whether the egg was male or female.

Answer 4

the chicken.if there is no chicken,there wlll be no egg.

Answer 5

Which came first Adam or a baby? Adam,so therefore the chicken came first.

Answer 6

^^^ To the answer above mine

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Answer 7

you face.

Answer 8

egg....the chicken's ancestor which is not called a chicken, evolve into chicken by laying the first chicken egg...

Answer 9

Simple the egg.

Way before chickens were around there was dinosaurs who had eggs.

easy.

Answer 10

the Rooster , of course.

no respect for the Female.

Answer 11

chicken.

Answer 12

Jesus.

Answer 13

the egg because what layed the egg wasn't quite a chicken but one evolutionary step back form a chicken.

Answer 14

egg came first

the 1st egg was given by an animal who wasnt a chicken.

i 4got da name of the animal =(

Answer 15

The egg because dinosaurs and pre-historic animals layed eggs, and they came beefore the chickens. So, the egg came way before the chicken!

Answer 16

None because I grilled the chicken and boiled the egg. xD

Answer 17

THE EGG COMES FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!

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."

Answer 18

the egg

Answer 19

I would image the egg came first.  At some point something evolved into a chicken so the mother who layed the egg might not have been classed as a chicken, but the egg which the first chicken came out of would be classed as being first.

Well it makes sense to me.