Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Seriously.
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"It is a question that has vexed philosophers since the Greeks. But it seems we may now have the answer to the beguilingly simple question: "Which came first?" It's the egg.
This reassuring conclusion was the work of an expert panel including a philosopher, geneticist and chicken farmer.
"Whether chicken eggs preceded chickens hinges on the nature of chicken eggs," said panel member and philosopher of science David Papineau at King's College London.
"I would argue it's a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it. If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg. By this reasoning, the first chicken did indeed come from a chicken egg, even though that egg didn't come from chickens."
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So, what came first, the chicken or the egg? This actually boils down to how you define a chicken egg. Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken or is it an egg that will produce a chicken? The answer will follow directly from the definition you feel is accurate.
If you are looking for a true scientific answer to your question, the answer would be that it's a tie. The theory of evolution points to the chicken an the chicken egg evolving simultaneously. Though both chicken and chicken egg have evolved from birds that were not chickens, in evolution you can never point to one individual that becomes a new species. There will always be a huge body of tiny variations that can't be pinpointed to an exact moment or individual animal.
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Nice! For this I must reward you with an eggsellent theme song:
Good one. I was trying to come up with a way of saying how the eggs would have slowly evolved harder and harder shells and be laid earlier in development as opposed to being laid just prior to birth, etc.
This description sort of skips all that. Nicely done.
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So this question has been answered in our group of drunken wise men......The chicken had to come first because who was going to sit on the egg to hatch it?
And, if that wasn't enough, how come they find prehistoric everything but eggs? Somewhere there has to be a fossilized egg or one stuck in layers of rock or in a tar pit. These are the possible things we have actually discussed.
There is also the CNN report about the whole discussion being "unscrambled"
I also like this video which explains it all!
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Id love to join in one of your drunken discussion groups one day, I bet thats fun. Hey and I love that video, thanks for the laugh!!
They have found plenty of prehistoric egg shells. The entire egg fossilizing is problematic because once covered over the weight of the muck covering them would have cracked them.
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About the word "dogma" although it may seem like an unpleasant choice, they meant it as a "fundamental assumption" not as a "faith based truth."
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/genetic-science/question85.htm
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A class on Geology that I took at CU Boulder, we touched briefly on ancient life for about a week.
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Things evolved and evolved and eventually a chicken was seen running around!
How did life begin you may ask? Energy created small, small molecules.
Bits and pieces of info I picked up during high school
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It should be the egg.
We didn't see it but ..still i think it's the composition..
after grows and mature permutations
see'ya
nice question
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It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.
Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.
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M$Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.
Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.
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