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Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?
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You can arrive at this answer with the theory of evolution. Two chicken-like creatures mated to produce a more chicken-like creature. Since this creature began as an egg, the answer to your question would be the egg.
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You can arrive at this answer with the theory of evolution. Two chicken-like creatures mated to produce a more chicken-like creature. Since this creature began as an egg, the answer to your question would be the egg.
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It's a bit like asking, which came first the adult or the child.
An actual chicken egg has to be created by two adult birds.
So the chickens have to come first.
Based on an evolutionary theory, rather than magical processes.
I would have to conclude that egg laying was a derived process of reproduction.
Derived from a basic process, such a as cellular division.
Which came first, the cell or the divided cell?
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/problem-solved-the-egg-came-first-6910803/
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You too, have obviously not got much on this morning .
When did the chicken become the chicken?
The egg itself is not necessarily relevant to the question.
As I stated above, the relevant question is:
Which came first the parents or the offspring?
I would have to conclude that the parents come before the offspring.
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@Fredsnephew
You too, have obviously not got much on this morning
I’m an artist so I paint most the day in my studio , I use this and C D as amusements and distractions as it breaks the time up nicely
Parents and offspring yes , another tricky one and no doubt just as many different opinions
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Their is no clear point when a chicken becomes a chicken. The theory of evolution says that genetic changes in the species normally take place from in a aspiring who has a mutation its parents did not have. So it the egg where the genteelly different chickens come form. Asking a question about parent and aspring is defrent then where a spices begins and I would say while it depends I think the egg is the better answer. .
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Reptiles were the first to have hard-shelled eggs.
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Ah, I see. Egg still has to be first, as archaic chickens used them before our modern chicken did.
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The answer to your specific question is.
The Hen and the Cockerel definitely existed before they created their Egg.
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The short story is, it was the egg. The long story is, we weren't there to see it and can never really know.
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Let us pinpoint the moment when the very first creature we classify as chicken was born on this planet. The chicken had to be born from the egg. However, the creature that laid that egg was not a chicken, by definition of the selected moment in time. It was a proto-chicken, something very-very close to a chicken, but with slight genetic differences.
This logic cannot be reversed to obtain the opposing result. If we pinpoint the moment when the very first chicken egg was laid and look at what creature laid that egg, then that creature cannot be chicken, otherwise that chicken would have been born from another chicken egg, which contradicts the definition of the selected moment in time.
hence, the only conclusion is that the egg was the first, and then the first chicken appeared.
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a chicken randomly evolved to lay eggs but is is a controversial question wether that thing was a chicken or not
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The egg is a product of reproduction. It is one gender of bird that lays the egg. The egg alone does not create a life as it is unfertile. This would mean a chicken and rooster are required for an egg to be fertile and form a chick with an odd of chance as to its gender.
While on a time line it is the fertile egg which starts any chicken’s creation. What came first the chicken or the egg? Neither the question is demonstration of a human fraud. It is the same with the question on a glass of water. The glass is always full or it is broken.
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