Which is first egg or hen? 🐓🐔🐓🐔
This Is A Question From My Childhood Please Tell Me The Answer. Everyone Was Told The Answer But Didn't Gave A Correct Explanation. So Please Tell Me The Answer And A Small Explanation. Have A Nice Day.
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Boojum
Primitive egg-laying creatures evolved into dinosaurs, one particular dinosaur species evolved into birds, and those were the modern chicken's ancestors. At some point long, long ago, an egg hatched and the chick that emerged was something slightly different from it's parents, and that was the first chicken.
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Somenormie
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Somenormie
Think about how, humans are born. It's like asking how is a boy/girl born.
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I mean, I understand the answer
Life started as algae, basking in the sun atop the ocean. Kelp, other sea plants, grass, flowers, shrubs, trees developed. Fish and other basic aquatic life develop to eat the existing algae, insects, including bees, develop as scavengers and pollen spreaders. More complex life forms, the idea of evolution following favorable mutations weeding out less useful/productive/efficient/desirable traits seems to be the most believable theory to me, we get fish on land/reptiles, oxygen levels at this point in time create huge creatures, such as dinosaurs and insects bigger than people. Entropy in the gene pools grows exponentially with diversity and growth.
Eventually a species of egg laying creatures developed from some archaic fish that only existed after its food supply was established or the descendent of one such creature had its genes mutated to the point it became what we recognize as a chicken.
But you know the point of the riddle is like, the hen lays the egg and the egg hatches the hen, which lays the egg that hatches the hen, so how could you have a hen that lays any egg if you need an egg to hatch the hen
It implicitly highlights the uniqueness of life, it took billions of years for life to develope from pond scum to the civilizations we have today, for the seemingly paradoxical predicament about which came first, which could have come first, which probably came first, how could one come first, how did one come first, the chicken or the egg
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Somenormie
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Vvaas
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EnglishLad
Somewhere down the line in evolutionary history a pigeon fucked a turkey.
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Mammal-lover
Technically only someone with a really good microscope and junk can answer that. Look at the micro micro organism or whatever. That should tell you something about the creation of earth and eventually creation of the hen. If i had to guess though id say the egg as whatever predates the hen laid an egg and bam we got chicken.
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SickandTwisted18720
It was actually the rooster that came first because you have to have the rooster to fertilize the chicken to make an egg therefore the rooster came first
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TheBlindInquisitor
(my eyes roll to the back of my head and I foam at the mouth trying to figure it out)
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Tommythecaty
Leopards have roundish spots, eggs are roundish, the earth is roundish...it’s all coming together
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bigbudchonga
I would imagine technically the egg, but super technically neither. Evolution works by mutation, and after enough mutations had been undergone, over successive generations, the predecessor of the hen would find that somewhere along the way it's descendants had turned into something else.
However, given how long this would take, and how it's a cumulative change through the generations of breeding, you couldn't really put your finger on a specific egg which is the one that crossed over to create the Phasianidae family.
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raisinbran
It started out as a breakfast burrito, someone reverse engineered all the components and ended up with an omelette. Chickens and eggs are from science text books and not real.
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Cuntsiclestick
Do you play Splatoon? This question is the theme of the next Splatfest. I'm going to be on team chicken. I'm thinking that maybe the chicken probably evolved from something different before it laid eggs.
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Iluvcox
in this particular question "which is first egg or hen", if you read carefully you will see that clearly the egg was and is first. I hope this brings you the answer you were seeking
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bbrown95
If you subscribe to Christianity or any other belief system based on a higher power creating people and animals on the Earth after it was first created, I would say the hen. I admittedly don't know much about birds or eggs, but could an egg survive without the hen to protect it? If you go by what the Bible tells, Adam and Eve were already adults when created, so why wouldn't the rest of the creatures also be?
If you don't subscribe to any theological beliefs with similar stories, I'm not sure what the answer would be.
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RoseIsabella
It was probably some sort of lizard that came first. Chickens are distant relatives of the tyrannosaurus rex.
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