Which came 1st? De Chicken or De Egg?

Greetings,

Let us take a moment and return to ze age old question that we never really bothered to attempt while we were kids... Which came 1^st?

The Chicken or the Egg?

You might say that there is no answer to this question. I say there is! And theres more than one!

1# The Egg came 1st!

Most of mainstream science agrees that all life on earth once evolved from simple organisms like bacteria. Through evolution as creatures slowly but surely accumulate changes and mutations in their DNA, more and more complex organisms appeared. Like the dog from wolves and man from apes etc. One can envision that once upon a time, chickens came from a kind of bird that didn't look like chickens. One day, a slightly mutated chicken-ancestor laid an egg that bore the genes to create the chicken that we know today. And voila~! Our beloved chicken has arrived from the egg of a non-chicken. So the 1^st chicken was born; from the egg!

2#The Chicken came 1st!

From a taxonomic point of view, of course the chicken came 1st! The world as we know it, is only

as we define it. Just as noise is only defined as noise when someone is there to hear it. In the

beginning, when humans 1^st decided to categorize the Chicken (Gallus gallus, sometimes G. gallus domesticus), they look to the bird itself and recognize the species from that bird, not so much the egg. Thus, that bird 1^st become known as the “Chicken”, from the fowl, and not from its egg. Thus, as far human's description is concerned, the “Chicken” came 1st!

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