Which Came First: The Chicken or the Egg? Answered.

Question: Which came first, the Chicken, or the Egg?

Correct Answer: The Egg

This answer is based in the theory of evolution.

Every modern creature that walks the earth today is a result/conglomerate of genetic mutations that occur during reproduction. New traits in a species that result from genetic mutations are selected over time on the basis of whether they increase the species' ability to survive and reproduce; adventageous traits gained through genetic mutation are thus passed down through the gene pool. All of our modern concepts/classifications of species, or breeds of species, are simply the most recent and most common genetic mutation of that gene pool.

Now, consider the "Chicken", this being the present day and most up-to-date genetic variation of that species of bird. Now, at some point there was a bird, very similar to this Chicken, but was not a Chicken by genetic standards. This bird laid an egg that birthed a bird ("The Chicken") that was slightly different because of it's genetic mutation.

Therefore this newly born bird would be a "Chicken", hatched from a Chicken egg. The bird that laid the chicken egg however, would not be considered a "Chicken" because of its slight differences in genetics. The Chicken egg was laid by a bird that was not a Chicken.

Therefore we can safely affirm that the Egg came before the Chicken.

Mic Drop.

-J