• Question: what came first the chicken or the egg?? x

    Asked by 08chayler to Andrew, Daniel, Hayley, Natalia, Peta on 18 Nov 2011. This question was also asked by eleanorbear1.
    • Photo: Daniel Scully

      Daniel Scully answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      Well chickens must have evolved from other animals, which were almost like chickens but not quite. Evolution occurs by random mutations of genes.

      So, the first chicken was the mutant offspring of something very much like a chicken, but not quite a chicken. That first chicken was born from an egg, laid by the not-quite-chicken mother.

      So the egg came first.

    • Photo: Andrew Cairns

      Andrew Cairns answered on 16 Nov 2011:

      The chicken. I have no logic.

    • Photo: Peta Foster

      Peta Foster answered on 17 Nov 2011:

      the egg… reptiles were around first and they had eggs. 🙂

    • Photo: Hayley Smith

      Hayley Smith answered on 18 Nov 2011:

      I’m going to say egg too, I think…

      If you follow evolution then there would have been many different creatures and many different eggs. At some point there would have been evolution to a chicken and this chicken would have come out of an egg.

      But now I’m going to say chicken…

      Because if you mean an actual hen egg then I guess the answer would be the chicken came first, since there would have to have been this evolutionary chicken first in order to lay the next actual chicken egg.

      Hopefully some of that logic fits :s

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