Which came first: the chicken or the egg?

[Liberty4eva]

Which came first: the chicken or the egg?

[Jordan.]

The chicken evolved from this:

http://www.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/papo_velociraptor_dinosaur_toys.jpg

proven fact

[Kerry]

Chicken omelette

[Patrick]

The chicken evolved from this:

http://www.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/papo_velociraptor_dinosaur_toys.jpg

proven fact

A Toy Dinosaur rofl.

[Josy]

Chicken obviously, C comes before E in the alphabet :laugh:

Seriously though, I think it was the egg.

[Shasown]

The egg

[Jords]

Egg.

Some bird close to the chicken laid an egg which genes had a mutation to produce the modern day chicken :tongue:

-my theory anyway-

[Shasown]

Egg.

Some bird close to the chicken laid an egg which genes had a mutation to produce the modern day chicken :tongue:

-my theory anyway-

Fully concur, eggs easier to be evolved into whereas a chicken is a higher form of life. And chickens will still be evolving and changing. Plus fosillised eggs have been found from earlier reptiles and animals which predate the modern chicken.

[lostalex]

The egg came first. Plenty of species had eggs before chickens evolved. So obviously eggs came LONG before chickens or chicken eggs.

It would be a more interesting question if you asked "which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?"

[ILoveTRW]

The Egg because a chicken is only a chicken if it hatched from an egg

[joeysteele]

I've chosen Chicken but I get really so involved thinking on this question whenever it comes up, I drive myself and others crazy.

[Pyramid*]

The Egg because a chicken is only a chicken if it hatched from an egg

I suppose a chicken is only a chicken if it hatched from a chicken egg. Which means you'd need the chicken to exist first for it to lay a chicken egg. If it hatched from another type of egg - ie: turtle, it wouldn't be a chicken !!


PMSL. :joker:

I go for egg - and dependant on the species that evolved /mutated - therein the type of creature/animal/bird came to exist.

[Patrick]

Egg.

Some bird close to the chicken laid an egg which genes had a mutation to produce the modern day chicken :tongue:

-my theory anyway-

How could the bird lay an egg close to a chicken and then come first? ;)

[Pyramid*]

How could the bird lay an egg close to a chicken and then come first? ;)

I take it you do realise that they meant 'close to' - meaning similar in genes - as opposed to 'close by'.

;)

[patsylimerick]

:joker:

Apparently scientists have (sorry :blush:) 'cracked' it.

Growing a good egg: Metadynamics simulations show that the eggshell protein ovocleidin-17 induces the formation of calcite crystals from amorphous calcium carbonate nanoparticles. Multiple spontaneous crystallization and amorphization events were simulated; these simulations suggest a catalytic cycle that explains the role of ovocleidin-17 in the first stages of eggshell formation.

Now, the protein ovocleidin-17 is found within the bird's ovaries and therefore, there cannot be an egg without there first being a bird. So the chicken (or something like it) evolved and then established this protein which allowed it to produce eggs.

qed :joker:

[tmi]

:joker:

Apparently scientists have (sorry :blush:) 'cracked' it.

Growing a good egg: Metadynamics simulations show that the eggshell protein ovocleidin-17 induces the formation of calcite crystals from amorphous calcium carbonate nanoparticles. Multiple spontaneous crystallization and amorphization events were simulated; these simulations suggest a catalytic cycle that explains the role of ovocleidin-17 in the first stages of eggshell formation.

Now, the protein ovocleidin-17 is found within the bird's ovaries and therefore, there cannot be an egg without there first being a bird. So the chicken (or something like it) evolved and then established this protein which allowed it to produce eggs.



qed :joker:


I think it was egg:xyxwave:

[Pyramid*]

:joker:

Apparently scientists have (sorry :blush:) 'cracked' it.

Growing a good egg: Metadynamics simulations show that the eggshell protein ovocleidin-17 induces the formation of calcite crystals from amorphous calcium carbonate nanoparticles. Multiple spontaneous crystallization and amorphization events were simulated; these simulations suggest a catalytic cycle that explains the role of ovocleidin-17 in the first stages of eggshell formation.

Now, the protein ovocleidin-17 is found within the bird's ovaries and therefore, there cannot be an egg without there first being a bird. So the chicken (or something like it) evolved and then established this protein which allowed it to produce eggs.

qed :joker:
Pats...if I wasn't straight... I would say I loved you !! :joker:

[Grimnir]

the egg came first

back when the chicken's ancestor had the first mutant egg baby with 2 heads

[lostalex]

which came first, the conspiracy or the conspiracy theory?