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

    Asked by Holsb to Franco, Koi, Mark on 23 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Mark Booth

      Mark Booth answered on 23 Jun 2016:

      Hi Holsb

      we have to think of this question from an evolutionary perspective. neither the chicken or the egg suddenly popped into existence. There would have been a proto-chicken and a proto-egg millions of years ago. Before the proto-chicken and the proto-egg would have been an organism that involved to distribute its DNA through popping out little capsules. before that there were organisms that would distribute themselves by dividing the cells into 2 new cells. so really the answer to this question is that they evolved at the same time.

    • Photo: Franco Falcone

      Franco Falcone answered on 23 Jun 2016:

      Holsb nothing to add to what Mark said – chicken and eggs (in the female chicken ovaries, as in human females) are born together, and the answer to this paradox is that it is not a paradox at all, andcan only be explained by the theory of evolution.

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      Arporn Wangwiwatsin answered on 23 Jun 2016:

      I love Mark’s answer for this and how evolution can explain many things.

      But if I may add a twist (hehehe~ *cunning giggle*)… the question did not say specifically that it is the ‘chicken egg’, so I would say the egg came first, because before the chicken (and a proto-chicken), there would already be other living things that lay eggs, like amphibians and reptiles! 😉

      (pretending that I don’t understand English 😛 )

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