Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?

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The EGG came first. Dinosaurs (reptiles) were laying eggs millions of years before chickens evolved and chickens (birds) evolved from reptiles.

I would say the chicken came first. Noah had the animals two by two on his ark. I don't remember any mention of eggs.

In serious terms, the egg came first before the chicken. -quote- "It is a question that has vexed philosophers since the Greeks. But it seems we may now have the answer to the beguilingly simple question: "Which came first?"

It's the egg. This reassuring conclusion was the work of an expert panel including a philosopher, geneticist and chicken farmer. "Whether chicken eggs preceded chickens hinges on the nature of chicken eggs," said panel member and philosopher of science David Papineau at King's College London."I would argue it's a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it.

If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg. By this reasoning, the first chicken did indeed come from a chicken egg, even though that egg didn't come from chickens." -end of quote.

As many have pointed out, the concept of egg was establish long before anyone had ever heard of a chicken. This doesn't really answer your intriguing question though, as one has to assume that the question concerns chicken eggs. So, what came first, the chicken or the egg?

This actually boils down to how you define a chicken egg. Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken or is it an egg that will produce a chicken? The answer will follow directly from the definition you feel is accurate.

If you are looking for a true scientific answer to your question, the answer would be that it's a tie. The theory of evolution points to the chicken an the chicken egg evolving simultaneously. Though both chicken and chicken egg have evolved from birds that were not chickens, in evolution you can never point to one individual that becomes a new species.

There will always be a huge body of tiny variations that can't be pinpointed to an exact moment or individual animal.

Plural of moose is not meese but goose becomes geese. Why do lighter warnings state "Do not expose to open flame"? So this question has been answered in our group of drunken wise men......The chicken had to come first because who was going to sit on the egg to hatch it?

And, if that wasn't enough, how come they find prehistoric everything but eggs? Somewhere there has to be a fossilized egg or one stuck in layers of rock or in a tar pit. These are the possible things we have actually discussed.

There is also the CNN report about the whole discussion being "unscrambled" I also like this video which explains it all!

Francis Crick who discovered DNA, along w/James Watson formulated what they called the "Central Dogma of Molecular Biology" in 1957. This says that the you "begin" with the information contained in nucleic acids (DNA & RNA) and amino acid sequences and "go to" proteins. In other words you cannot create an organism without first having its genetic information.

Therefore the "Egg" comes before the chicken. P.S. About the word "dogma" although it may seem like an unpleasant choice, they meant it as a "fundamental assumption" not as a "faith based truth.

The egg would be first. As evolution works through genetic mutation the first chicken still began within the egg. Mutations occur genetically not after birth.As back up for my logic... science.howstuffworks.com/genetic-scienc....

The egg. For example, dinosaurs were born from eggs way before chickens were even around. Reproducing via egg was an early way of adapting to life on land; when all animals lived underwater (as I'm sure you've heard, the officially adopted theory out there is that all life originated from the sea), reproduction and development would occur underwater, but when animals began moving to live on land, their reproduction style began to change.

The egg contains essential nutrients the young would need, as well as an all-water environment that their species require to reproduce successfully. The chicken then came later, evolving - as other birds did - from the small feathered animal called the Archaeopteryx.

Evolution, in which case the "chicken" came first. Things evolved and evolved and eventually a chicken was seen running around! How did life begin you may ask?

Energy created small, small molecules.

It should be the egg. We didn't see it but ..still I think it's the composition.. after grows and mature permutations see'ya nice question.

The egg, as eggs were also laid by dinosaurs, because they were reptilians. And the chicken came waaaaaaaay after the extinction of the dinosaur.

A team of geneticist has found the answer to one of the most baffling question. And the answer is "the egg. " -----quote--- It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?

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.

----end of quote.

In nature, living things evolve through changes in their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the first cell of a new baby chicken. This first cell divides innumerable times to form all of the cells of the complete animal.In any animal, every cell contains exactly the same DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote.

Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken.

That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken. Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg.

So, the egg must have come first.

A team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer to this question. It was the egg that came first.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.