One of the most asked questions today?

[DJ critikaL]

This is perhaps one of the most asked questions today:

Which came first? The Egg or The Chicken?


Personally I think a dinosaur and a bird had intercourse and out came the egg.

Anyone else agree?

[lazserus]

Good call. From my understanding of evolution, biology, and genetics I'd have to say the egg came first.

[Doomer]

Actually, I thought it was -

Which came first, the chicken or the egg ?

This is an important distinction. :headbang:

[Elizabethlea]

Actually, I thought it was -

Which came first, the chicken or the egg ?

This is an important distinction. :headbang:

lol.

As for the question.... I'd say the chicken, who decided one day to start laying eggs. The first ameobas were single celled and reproduced by dividing... reproduction has evolved alot from there, I suppose eggs were just convenient.

[Marajadex]

Ah... but could that ameoba be considered an egg? of sorts?? :smokin:

[lotrfan55345]

I think it would be egg.

Some sort of organism layed an egg who was geneticially different from it and thus the Chicken.

[Ghost]

The Chicken of course.

A chicken egg requires incubation to hatch. If the egg came first, what incubated it to keep it warm enough to develop? A chicken egg by itself will never develop and it will just go bad.

[Keeblergiant]

Personally I think a dinosaur and a bird had intercourse and out came the egg.

Haha...birds couldn't have mated with dinosaurs, as that is the distinction between two seperate species. But, on to the question, I believe it's misleading, because it implies that either the chicken existed first or the something popped out an egg with a chicken in it. There really was no first, as evolution is a gradual process, and the chicken gradually evolved.

[jjserio]

Every species is just a series of chemical reactions predetermined by our DNA. In order to continue these reactions we reproduce. Slowly through natural selection we genetically mutate or evolve into new species.

To look specifically at chickens, they are certainly decendants of other egg laying species that evolved into chickens. So i believe the chicken did come first, emerging out of an egg from their closest relative, then that first chicken laid the first chicken egg.

The prior species which evolved into chickens was created by a prior species who used a form of reproduction.


By the way..
Birds are avian dinosaurs which evolved from theropod dinosaurs roughly 150 mya.

[Mezurashi]

my answer is, it would depend on who was more excited. premature ejac can be messy and psychologically devastating amd should not be mocked...

oh, wasn't that what the question was about?