Who was first, the chicken or the egg?

[Aberdeen]

Mmm..tricky How about nurture acting on nature (epigenetic evolution?) In which case, which came first the mutated chicken or the mutated egg? I`d go with the egg. Let`s say species A passed on some mutated genes [which did not make it itself a chicken but rather the immediate predecessor] and the result was B..chicken? No, that wouldn`t really work...
I think I`ve just gone round in circles here...

Okay, if we're going to ignore the fact that eggs existed millions of years before there were chickens, I say the egg still came first, because a proto-chicken must have laid the egg that produced the first real chicken. So, egg first.

 

[hope]

Okay, if we're going to ignore the fact that eggs existed millions of years before there were chickens, I say the egg still came first, because a proto-chicken must have laid the egg that produced the first real chicken. So, egg first.

Proto-chicken..now why didn`t I just say that?!
Yes I agree, it has to be egg first.....

 

[Twilight]

Sounds like we got a pecking order here