Well, I'm sure most of you have at least once wondered about this old question, if it was the chicken or it's egg that came first.
Wonder no further, though, for the real answer has been found and disclosed by science: The chicken actually came first.
""It had long been suspected that the egg came first, but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first," Sheffield University's Dr Colin Freeman, according to a report in the Metro.
Researchers from Scotland and England used a supercomputer called HECToR to look in such detail at a chicken eggshell that they were able to determine the vital role of a protein used to kick-start the egg's formation.
That protein is only found, wait for it... inside a chicken.
Freeman, who worked on HECToR with counterparts at Edinburgh's Warwick University, said the protein had been identified earlier by scientists and was known to be linked to egg formation, "but by examining it closely we have been able to see how it controls the process," he added, describing it as a catalyst."
The only problem now is discovering how the chicken came to be in the first place, though.
Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/14/tech/main6676542.shtml
So, does this goes for or against your previous thoughts about the question?
I'd personally never given it much of a thought, because when I did, I just found it inconclusive. Although I'd have gone with the chicken if I had to pick one from the start.
Wonder no further, though, for the real answer has been found and disclosed by science: The chicken actually came first.
""It had long been suspected that the egg came first, but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first," Sheffield University's Dr Colin Freeman, according to a report in the Metro.
Researchers from Scotland and England used a supercomputer called HECToR to look in such detail at a chicken eggshell that they were able to determine the vital role of a protein used to kick-start the egg's formation.
That protein is only found, wait for it... inside a chicken.
Freeman, who worked on HECToR with counterparts at Edinburgh's Warwick University, said the protein had been identified earlier by scientists and was known to be linked to egg formation, "but by examining it closely we have been able to see how it controls the process," he added, describing it as a catalyst."
The only problem now is discovering how the chicken came to be in the first place, though.
Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/14/tech/main6676542.shtml
So, does this goes for or against your previous thoughts about the question?
I'd personally never given it much of a thought, because when I did, I just found it inconclusive. Although I'd have gone with the chicken if I had to pick one from the start.
