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

    Asked by samhill to Chris, Eva, Michael, Paddy, Philip on 14 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by cog123.
    • Photo: Chris Jordan

      Chris Jordan answered on 10 Jun 2011:

      the dinosaur!

    • Photo: Philip Denniff

      Philip Denniff answered on 11 Jun 2011:

      The egg. The DNA for chicken was contained within the egg. DNA of the offspring is mixture of its parents DNA plus some mistakes. These mistakes gave the chicken.
      No idea what the mother of the first chicken said when the egg hatched. May be ‘Your no chick of mine’.

    • Photo: Paddy Brock

      Paddy Brock answered on 12 Jun 2011:

      The egg, fish had been laying them for ~350 million years before birds evolved.

    • Photo: Michael Wharmby

      Michael Wharmby answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Creme eggs are a relatively recent invention. However as paddy says, fish eggs have been around for a longer time still…

    • Photo: Eva Bachmair

      Eva Bachmair answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Welcome to the club with Aristotle, Plutarch (both dead Greek philosophers) and Stephen Hawking (scientist, still alive). They asked the same question. Mh, why don’t you become a scientist, too and you might find one possible answer to that question?!

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