• Question: Which came first the chicken or the egg?

    Asked by to Daren, Lynne, Phillip, Simon on 17 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Daren Fearon

      Daren Fearon answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      I wondered when someone would ask this!

      I’m going for egg and here is a little video which can help explain. 🙂

    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      I’d go for the egg, because it’s a lot simpler than the chicken. Life started from single celled species so it makes sense to me that the least complicated things came first.

    • Photo: Phillip Manning

      Phillip Manning answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      The egg….340 million years ago. The Chicken was domesticated from jungle fowl that did not evolve until a few million years ago. So, chicken comes in as a very late 2nd place.

    • Photo: Lynne Thomas

      Lynne Thomas answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      Definitely the egg. Evolution will have changed things so that the first chicken was a genetic mutation of a previous species.

    • Photo: Simon Redfern

      Simon Redfern answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      the egg. But it wasn’t a chicken egg.

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