Discussion What came first ?

What came first the egg or the chicken ?

I am calling upon all brothers, sisters and unspecifieds to help me solve this Ancient riddle.

 

The egg, of course

 

If we're being funny, the egg, since dinosaurs laid eggs. In truth, the life form always comes before the reproductive system, which in this case is the egg. Before that life forms would reproduce in different ways, and eventually become chickens.
Unless you prefer believing in an alternate reality where bacterias or whatever evolved into an egg and magically became a chicken afterwards. (while the egg would be unfertilized since there's no hen either).

 

There isn't a question to it. Its the egg. Whether you are talking the individual lifecycle, it starts with an egg. Talking by species, the first animal to be able to be called a chicken would also be born from an egg, and going even further, eggs in general predate chickens by millions of years.

Or a humurous answer. the egg is had at breakfast and the chicken is dinner, so the egg.

 

Dinosaur, as "The present scientific consensus is that birds are a group of theropoddinosaurs that originated during the Mesozoic Era. A close relationship between birds and dinosaurs was first proposed in the nineteenth century after the discovery of the primitive birdArchaeopteryx in Germany"

 

My answer is the chicken. Why? If it was the egg it wont survive long to predators and environment. Meaning the egg came later as the previous generation produced the egg. As the chicken was able to survive. Then again if we go into more detail and include.evolution and only pertaining to chickens then egg might really be the answer since the previous generation might not be a chicken and produced the egg. So...im contradicting myself and might change my answer to egg...

 

are we talking about a chicken egg, European or African swallow egg, or just a random egg here?

 

The sh!t ...

 

It is impossible for the egg to hatch without a chicken to sit on it.

 

As Evolution happens in the span of millions of year both can be true, however im choosing chicken

 

err if we're talking 'bout Alphabetically first then no doubt its
Chicken then followed by Egg

 

It's obviously the bits of data make up those things that came before the chicken AND the egg

 

I think this was discussed here before. It was the egg because the evolution.

 

The road came first.

See "why did the chicken cross the road" and "what came first, the chicken or the egg" actually answer each other.

 

Meh, it´s obvious the rooster came first.

 

Pretty sure incubators do that all the time. Doesn't actually need a chicken to do that. It just needs to be warm... and not eaten....

 

Ah, I see. So incubators came before the egg. It all makes sense now!

 

Laden or unladen egg?