what came first...the Chicken or the 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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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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the chicken came first becuse the origin is the living thing's,so if the egg come befor there is No one going to hatch it .
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the chicken came first as each animal came first and then their children if not than who came first  an adult human being or a child , an adult reptile or a child reptile , a bird or an egg?
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The chicken because God created all of the animals first.  The egg came shortly after. :D
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Scientifically speaking, the egg must have come first because there was a non-chicken animal that evolved into a chicken, and the only way for that non-chicken animal to have evolved into a chicken is if there was a mutation during meiosis (reproduction). So the non-chicken animal would have laid an egg which became a chicken.
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If you believe that God created animals from scratch from the dust of the earth, then the chicken came first.  If you believe in evolution and the mutation of species over time, the egg came first.
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who come first chicken or 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... Reptiles came first, then birds, then mammals.... And reptiles LAY eggs!! Therefore the EGG came before the birds (in this case the chicken).
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Breakfast: Scrambled eggs\nLunch or dinner: Fried chicken\n\nTherefore, the egg came first.
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Putting arguments of a religious nature to one side... Darwinian evolution would say that that which we call a chicken (due to its unique genetic code) would have come from an egg laid by an animal almost a chicken but genetically slightly different. The theory being that a random genetic variation in the DNA of the offspring made it differ from its parent enough to be a different spicies, ie the first chicken. If this is the case, and science supports the theory, then we have a choice to answer your question. We can say that the first chicken egg was laid by a non chicken (the egg came first) or the first chicken came from a non chicken egg (the chicken came first).
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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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the chicken evolved and laid an egg.
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the egg was a mutant that turned into a chicken, so the egg came first
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The chicken evolved from another egg-laying bird. The first birds evolved from egg-laying reptiles, which evolved from egg-laying amphibians, which evolved from egg-laying fish. Going back to the beginning, minute variation in the "ovulation" cycle of whatever creature first laid an egg of any type.
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the egg\nthese webistes might help more\nhttp://science.howstuffworks.com/question85.htm\nhttp://www.word-detective.com/howcome/chickenoregg.html\nhttp://www.aeb.org/KidsAndFamily/which_came_first.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_chicken_or_the_egg\nhttp://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/2562