Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
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...Chicken's omelet!!!
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The egg.  Dinosaurs were laying eggs far before chickens had evolved, so the egg had to've come first.  :)
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A big idiot came first and laid an egg and kept asking stupid question all his life. The egg turned into the chicken. No one remembers what happened after that - only that stupid question is still kept alive by its predecessors- who came first
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Chicken. There was some bird that was not a chicken which was the first to evolve into a chicken. Thus the first true chicken occured before any true chicken eggs appeared.
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People will keep asking this question... (677 times and counting)\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=ArqSG_s0jG4ok1r1mx8sEIIjzKIX?p=chicken+or+the+egg\n\nHere's my answer, cut and paste from my answer to the same question asked the other day:\n\nThere were eggs long before chickens.\n\nDinosaurs laid eggs, for example, and birds evolved from dinosaurs.\n\nGuess what, a chicken is a bird.\n\nWhatever bird chickens evolved from laid eggs, so wherever you draw the line in the sand and say "here was the first chicken", well, that chicken had a mother who laid the egg.\n\nEggs came before chickens.
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In my opinon.. the first chicken egg pre-dated the first chicken.\n\nAt one point there was a creature that was only one mutation away from being it chicken - it was ALMOST a chicken.  It mutated and then laid an egg that expressed the mutation by hatching into the worlds first full fledged chicken.\n\nThis question can be argued so many ways...  of course, if you don't accept the theory of evolution, my arguement is meaningless.
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Well, Studies have shown that life started with a single cell organism. This was figured by the adaptation that they grew to multiple cells which were mammals. So the correct answer would be "The chicken came before the egg.
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the chicken evolved and laid an egg.
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Most would say the chicken, which is NOT true;\n\n"The egg! The amniotic egg (though not a chicken egg) was around on earth thousands of years before the chicken ever evolved."\n\nEggs existed long before chickens, according to On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee. These all-in-one reproductive cells, incorporating the nutrients to support life, evolved about a billion years ago. The first eggs were hatched in the ocean. As animal life emerged from the water about 250 million years ago, they began producing an egg with a tough leathery skin to prevent dehydration of its contents on dry land. The chicken evolved only about 5,000 years ago from an Asian bird.\n\nWhat makes a chicken "more evolved" than a fly?  Is it because a chicken is bigger than a fly?  Both flies and chickens have had the same amount of time to evolve to their present state.  The ancestors of chickens and flies split\noff from their common ancestor a long time ago, but both have continued to evolve since then.
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the egg. it was formed by organisms and eventually hatched.\n\ni first thought, well, if the chicken came first, it had to come from and egg, but then that egg would have to come from the chicken, then that chicken had to had come from and egg, and so on and forth
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The question that has perplexed us for multiple postings.\n\nThe egg came first, The first chicken came from an egg from something that was not quite a chicken.  Please see this handy movie for more details:
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The egg must have come first.\nLiving things evolve through changes in their DNA. The chicken evolved from the non-chicken through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens.\nSo the egg came first.
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A team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.\n\nPut simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.\n\nTherefore 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.\n\nProfessor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.\n\nThe living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.\n\n"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."\n\nThe same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.\n\nMr 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.\n\nHe told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.\n\n"I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.\n\n"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."\n\nBourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.\n\nHe 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."
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recent studies have shown that chicken came first as life started with single cell organisms, & by adaptation they grew to multi cellular which were mammals . so the chicken was formed before egg.
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Which came first - the chicken or the egg? \n\n"The chicken" came first - in the sentence of the question. \n\nIf the question is phrased differently, the answer is different.
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All living things are created by God (or whatever higher power you believe in) so the chicken had to come first.  The egg is not alive yet.
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