How’s this for an answer? Sexual reproduction occurs between a male and female gamete – usually in sperm and eggs (note that I very carefully haven’t mentioned POULTRY!). Now, here we go. It is generally accepted that, through evolution, from prehistoric times, from aquatic creatures came amphibious creatures, and then land animals. Going on another stage, reptiles further evolved, some became bipeds, on two legs, and the front legs gradually evolved into flight limbs – wings. All of these creatures are thought to have been created through sexual reproduction, therefore sperm and eggs. This leads onto birds, who are believed to have evolved from winged reptiles and thus the answer has to be EGGS. I just cannot say whether the chicken’s egg arrived before the chichen. I hope this helps. If not, then it’s a good way of getting around the question. Mark
Now thats a question! To tell the truth I dont know.
But, they simultaneously evolved I think. If you look at more basic, primitive organisms like fish, they still lay eggs. If you go back to bacteria, they clone themselves, rather than have an egg.
So I think the chicken and egg evolved together over millions of years. The circle of life, ahhhh!
Ah the age old question of the chicken and the egg!! As a believer in evolution and all that, I would have to say an egg (you didn’t actually say it had to be the egg that hatched into the chicken)! Which do you think came first and why?
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