What came first... chicken or the egg?

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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."

Daun KetumÂ®

The cock.

statica23

god made eggs
then the eggs hatched

lim

ginduras.

Mr. Bobo [Chantek ker..]

eggs comes from chicken, chicken comes from god

Aly HR

Chicken, because it probably evolved from something and then layed an egg.

xoxo13em

who knows! if you say the egg came first.. well then SOMEONE had to lay it so then then that would say the chicken came first but in order to get the chicken to come first you had to have and egg before it.. and then that brings us full circle and it is a never ending question...

AllanK

Easy. Go to the restaurant and ask the waiter, he will give you this answer: Sir, it depends which one you ordered first.

Bean

chicken of course..lol

Mrs. Jaimee Harmony OOH

Go to the information center of Gindy's Chicken Farm in Sabah, The Pirate's EGG Farm in Shenzhen, or the TinaBeer's EGG Factory in Japan. =P

ALL WE NEED IS <3

Chicken, `cause God made animals first. Then the chicken laid an egg, then blahblahblah so on and so fort.

cÃ¢mÎ¦uflÃ£gÃª

hot chick

Reyna D D

i go with Daun Ketum

The cock have to ""come"" first before the process of pregnancy of the chicken takes place..

jimmy

In the evolution process, some bird-like creature evolved and mated with some other bird-like creature and lay an egg. The egg hatches into a new chick with features of both of the bird-like creatures.... this goes on and on....with the "new" chick adapting to suit the environment, forming new "features". The new chick mate with another.....form a new chick....adapt.....mate.... form new chick...adapt....mate...until finally, the chicken as we know it comes by---from a egg. So, the egg comes first. (Although a bird-like creature was first on the scene, but that one was not the present chicken, which only became such during a long process of evolution.)

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CHICKEN!

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Zee..zzzz....

Logically, in order for egg to hatch,
it must be incubated by the warmth of the hen.
If left in open air, when the temperature is not stabil,
egg won't hatch.

Furthermore, if egg was left unattended, other animal might come to eat it.

Later, after hatch, the mother hen must find food for the chick, coz it is not capable finding food by itself because its too weak and small.

Make any sense?

Glideslope

alphabetically - the chicken.

Actually - the egg. Rumor has it, someone choked the chicken,

kimht

is confirmed in the scientific community now that the egg come first and not the chicken
the problem now is........dinosaur or the egg come first ?
LOL

Wild Bean

Chicken .... that is why we say 'Hoi !!! Are you a chicken ?" and not "Are you an egg ?"

kk6644k444

Duck come first, 5000 years ago.. because some baby duck did not follow the parent and stay at main-land area, no rive, there forgot how to swim...after many year...... those duck become Chicken...DNA change..