• Question: What comes first the chicken or the egg?

    Asked by 11wiloma to James, Marcus, Martin, Rob, Suzanne on 16 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by 11chrans.
    • Photo: Martin Zaltz Austwick

      Martin Zaltz Austwick answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      The egg. There were fish and dinosaurs and other things that laid eggs long before the chicken.

    • Photo: Suzanne McEndoo

      Suzanne McEndoo answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      Well, a chicken can’t flutter out of thin air, so a chicken must come from an egg. In fact, it has to come from a chicken egg. But the very first chicken egg doesn’t have to be laid by a chicken. It could be laid by a protochicken which is not a chicken, but by a fluke of evolution can give birth to chickens.

      Plus, as Martin points out, there were eggs long before there were chickens. So the egg came first.

    • Photo: Marcus Gallagher-Jones

      Marcus Gallagher-Jones answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      The egg comes first, unless you are making a chicken omelette is which case it’s probably better to start with the chicken 😉

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