which came first the chicken or the egg?

Question: which came first the chicken or the egg?
- Keywords:
  chicken,
  egg
Asked by onedirection98 to James P on 27 Jun 2012.
- James Pope answered on 27 Jun 2012:
  
  Hi onedirection98
  
  Because of the way evolution works, the ancestor of a species gives birth to the first member of the new species, the egg will have come first, containing the first chicken laid by the ancestor of the chicken family.

Question: which came first the chicken or the egg?