The age old question of which came first: the chicken or the egg? Well I think I’ve cracked it (If you’ll excuse the pun). Using my A level understanding of evolution, I can reveal that it is…. The chicken.
The theory goes that at some point in the evolutionary chain there was a bird and it produced an offspring that was the first bird to be defined as a chicken.
Which still raises the issue that that chicken had to have come from an egg. However, an egg if defined by the creature that lays it. For example, a robin egg is a small blue egg and a blue tit egg is small whitish egg. So the egg the first chicken sprung from was a pre-chicken egg. The egg can also be regarded as a by-product of birth, like a placenta. The placenta is generally
referred to as the mother’s not the baby’s. The next egg produced by the new ‘chicken’, would be the first bona fide chicken egg.
In conclusion, the chicken came first, so there. For a more scientific version you might like http://www.howstuffworks.com/question85.htm or if you were backing the egg try http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/may/26/uknews and if after all that your brain hurts you can’t beat (sorry) http://gamescene.com/Chicken_And_Eggs_game.html for a 5 minute chicken related distraction.
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