whats older?chicken or egg?
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My ex - political science teacher is older, believe me!\nBut let's say an egg!
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originality\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AooSNtwtO3rIeYLlP19pSvvpy6IX?p=chicken+or+egg
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Actually this has a real answer. According to the book "Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or so) Absolutely True Tidbits About (mostly) Everything" by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo the egg came first.\n\nAccording to their research chickens evolved from early Indochina birds called red jungle fowl. Mutations in the jungle fowls eggs produced things more like chickens...these bred with other bird causing more mutations producing todays chicken.\n\nSo the eggs have it!
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chicken came first!!\nPS:chicken comes in a dictionary before egg
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both. if you didn't have the chicken, how do you get the egg?
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The egg. In general - eggs of various species- insects, dinosaurs, etc.  had been around LONG before chickens evolved.
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The egg. If we draw an arbitrary line between something that's a "pre-chicken" and something that is a chicken, a pre-chicken laid an egg that had a mutation in it, which put it over the chicken line. Genes don't change during one lifespan, only in the offspring.
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The egg.  Chickens and in fact, all birds, evolved from dinosaurs - which laid eggs.
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Ok, this is the Jokes and riddles section. But here's the real thing...\n\nThe modern chicken is generally believed to be a descendant of "Archaeopteryx", the oldest known bird. This 150 million year old resident of the Jurassic period laid eggs, and at some point of time, evolved into an animal that was one generation away from being a proper chicken. This creature would have produced the egg out of which the first chicken emerged...the EGG came first.
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Depends , Did you order a boiled egg or or a chicken breast?\n\nWaiter!
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People will keep asking this question... (681 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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egg.........\n\nthe progenitors would not (quite) be chickens...
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The chicken. The egg wouldn't ever become a chicken unless there was a chicken in the first place to sit on it...
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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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My guess: chickens evolved from animals who breed via eggs, so eggs were first. Like there was one animal similiar to a chicken, that one day dropped an egg, and out of the egg came the first chicken. Or something like that...
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There 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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The Egg.\n\nDinosaurs came before the chicken, methinks.