• Question: What came first, a chicken or an egg?

    Asked by to Mo Rassul, Krishna, John, Del, Catherine on 18 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by , , .
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      Adelle Thrower answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      hmmmm that is the question of questions!!
      in evolution we all started as very small water dwelling species and slowly over loads of time evolved to the range of species we have now. as we came from the water- we grew legs and were able to leave the water- these were reptiles like crocodiles. these lay eggs. so if over lots of time the reptiles evolved into birds as thought then in theory the egg came first. but its not as simple as one day there was an egg and the next a chicken. it was over many many years!

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      Catherine Mansfield answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      Very good question! Many birds were laying eggs before chickens had evolved. At some point mutations would have occurred within the egg which caused a chicken to born from that egg. That chicken would then go on to lay more eggs with more chickens being born. So I would say that the egg came first, although it was not a chicken egg, it was some ancestor of the chicken.

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      Muhammed Rassul answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      It is tough to answer. Logic says the egg seeing as for the original chicken to occur you need to have a mutation, egg laying is quite an old quality, hense multiple species of animals lay eggs.

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