• Question: what came frist the chicken or the egg

    Asked by 492heac39 to Andy, Dwaine, Natt, Priya, Tatiana on 23 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Tatiana Trantidou

      Tatiana Trantidou answered on 23 Jun 2015:

      Tricky question! Some scientists recently said it was the chicken that came first. They found that the egg shells are formed because of a protein found only in a chicken’s ovaries. So basically an egg can exist only if it has been inside a chicken. 🙂

    • Photo: Dwaine Vance

      Dwaine Vance answered on 23 Jun 2015:

      Defo the egg – but back then the chicken hadnt evolved from the dinosaur 😉

      Dwaine

    • Photo: Andrew Scott

      Andrew Scott answered on 24 Jun 2015:

      I always say the egg. This is because evolutionary theory says that animals change through genetic mutations. The thing that laid the first egg that hatched into a chicken may not have been a chicken as we know it, but some other similar bird that had a mutation in the genes that created the chicken egg. Evolution is a very gradual thing though, so the thing that laid the egg would have been very similar to a chicken.

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