which came first, the chicken or the egg?
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The egg came first.  At some time in the evolutionary development of the chicken as we know it, there was some previous creature that was not quite a chicken.  Let's call this a "proto-chicken".  In the ovary of the proto-chicken, which is always subject to some small amount of mutation, it carries all the genes that would make a proto-chicken, but it gets mutated to form what we think of as a chicken.  The egg is laid, and when it hatches, it will become a chicken.  Thus, the proto-chicken which laid the egg is not a chicken, but the egg will produce a chicken, so the egg came first.
1042994
if u believe in evolution...then the egg...because it came from something that resembled a chicken but then transformed into a chicken\nif you believe in creation (such as myself) then the chicken...cause God made the chicken on that certain day!
582612
You mean ...what came first...Chicken or Egg...?
18394
The egg came first, from something that was close to, but not quite a chicken. What came out of the egg was a mutation, also known as the first chicken, or at least close to one. Since it was able to successfully breed, its mutated genes were passed on, and much later on, chickens were able to dominate, while their earlier ancestors became extinct...
1186972
the egg was a mutant that turned into a chicken, so the egg came first
63835
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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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.
548166
well\nit's the same as follows:\ndid egg come first or a hen?\ni wish u find your answer.
668690
From the bible,especially the book of Genesis which talks about creation, We have not been told that God created an egg but all birds and from there it is the bird that layed the egg therefore, it is the chicken which came first and we cannot doubt that.
1027119
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).
15437
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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i actually know the answer to this question..i remember reading it somewhere..i just forgot where..anyway...the answer is the chicken came first for two reasons (based on your beliefs):\n\n1. you believe in god creating everything..therefore he created the chicken\n\n2. you believe in natural selection and evolution, so the chicken evolved from some other animal
995613
Well, Studies have shown that life started with a single cell organism. This was figured by the adaptation that they grew to multiple cells which were mammals. So the correct answer would be "The chicken came before the egg.
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the chicken evolved and laid an egg.
118113
Chicken. There was some bird that was not a chicken which was the first to evolve into a chicken. Thus the first true chicken occured before any true chicken eggs appeared.
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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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I would have to say either "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" or "What is the meaning of life?"