Poll: Which Came First: The Chicken or the Egg?
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The author of this thread doesn't seem to get our point about the egg...
Yeah, something had to incubate the eggs, but that thing wasn't technically a chicken. That thing was whatever chickens evolved from.
Yeah, something had to incubate the eggs, but that thing wasn't technically a chicken. That thing was whatever chickens evolved from.
This seems to be a rather pointless discussion, but I'll chip in anyway:
The egg. Why? Because the first Gallus gallus domesticus had to have hatched from an egg, and its parent was presumably just a bit genetically different to its offspring. So there.
It was a good philosophical question until evolutionary science came along.
The egg. Why? Because the first Gallus gallus domesticus had to have hatched from an egg, and its parent was presumably just a bit genetically different to its offspring. So there.
It was a good philosophical question until evolutionary science came along.
Lets see...the last nonchicken lays an egg that hatches the first chicken. Does the egg belong to the last nonchicken? If so then the chicken came first. Or, does the egg belong to the chicken that hatched out of it? If so, then the egg came first.
I'll say the egg is part of the animal that hatches out of it; therefore it belongs to the chicken that hatched from it, making it the first chicken egg. So the egg came first.
I'll say the egg is part of the animal that hatches out of it; therefore it belongs to the chicken that hatched from it, making it the first chicken egg. So the egg came first.
No, it didn't. Dinosaurs had eggs way before chickens even existed.meepop said:
Whatever eventually evolved into the chicken laid an egg that a chicken came from.
Evolution occurs during reproduction, where enough mutation occurs that the offspring is different enough from the parent.
Thus it was the egg that heralded what we know as the modern chicken, because the animal that laid it is different enough to be known by another species.
Thus it was the egg that heralded what we know as the modern chicken, because the animal that laid it is different enough to be known by another species.
Something would have to evolve into a chicken for it to lay the egg, well in doomsday arcade they asked that question, and I must say that guys ideas were good.
Before chickens, there will have been a creature with almose identical DNA to the modern chicken. When the unfertilised egg becomes fertilised, the genetics from the male sperm and female egg would have brought together the two halves of the DNA stand that make the genetics of the modern chicken. Therefore the egg of a modern chicken will manifest and be born from a creature that for all intents and purposes is not a true chicken. Meaning that the egg must come before the chicken.
And the word chicken is beginning to sound stranger and stranger the more I think about it...
And the word chicken is beginning to sound stranger and stranger the more I think about it...
This also worksazure-gaia said:
Eggs for the billions of mutations that resulted in the chicken happened during cell division. Also, because they're delicious.
This isn't quite how evolution works. those cingle-celled organisms eventually became another species through reproduction, then through further reproduction, more species were created, and so on.El_Chubba_Chubba said:
This basically means that the parent species of the chicken had an egg, which created a chicken. the parent species was probably similar to the first chicken, but the parent species were not considered to be chickens.
And this is why the egg came first.
The egg, because...wait a minute. It seems that people have already presented my arguement. There goes my chance to be the smart guy in the thread.
Only true if the question read "what came first, the chicken, or the chicken egg" if this is the true nature of the question, then the chicken came first (obviously)meepop said:
Science tells us that the egg that laid the first chicken, did not come from a chicken, but a species similar to a chicken. therefore, the egg came first.
As a chef i would prefer to have the egg...use the egg whites with some sugar and make some candied walnuts then we can use the yolk to make a nice hollandaise sauce. After that we can take the chicken trim it down, and roast with some fresh herbs and.....wait....we mean evolution wise?......
well who the fuck cares eggs taste great.
well who the fuck cares eggs taste great.
They were teleported here with magic you idiots. Didn't you all know that chickens are a highly advanced species living on one of the moons of a far off planet?
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A chicken didn't exist until Human's classified it as such; before that it was a just a step on a seamless transition from one organism to the other.
Because the change wasn't something like dinosaur -->bird with feathers ---> chicken; the steps in between are so small to say one came first is impossible.
Although the very first ever egg must have come from an organism and therefore the "chicken" must have come first
A chicken didn't exist until Human's classified it as such; before that it was a just a step on a seamless transition from one organism to the other.
Because the change wasn't something like dinosaur -->bird with feathers ---> chicken; the steps in between are so small to say one came first is impossible.
Although the very first ever egg must have come from an organism and therefore the "chicken" must have come first