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| Although the question is typically used metaphorically, literal answers have been formulated for whether the chicken or egg came first. | Although the question is typically used metaphorically, literal answers have been formulated for whether the chicken or egg came first. | ||
| If the question refers to eggs in general, the egg came first, as the first egg-laying animals evolved millions of years prior to birds.<ref>{{cite journal | |||
| | title=FYI: Which Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg? | |||
| | first=Daniel | |||
| | last=Engber | |||
| | date=2013-03-20 | |||
| | journal=Popular Science | |||
| | volume=282 | |||
| | issue=3 | |||
| | page=78 | |||
| | publisher=] | |||
| | url=http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/fyi-which-came-first-chicken-or-egg | |||
| | accessdate=2017-07-11}}</ref> If the question refers to ''chicken'' eggs specifically, the answer is not the egg, but the explanation is more complicated. An animal nearly identical to the modern chicken (i.e., a ]-chicken) laid a fertilized egg that had DNA identical to the modern chicken (due to mutations in the mother's ovum, the father's sperm, or the fertilised ]).<ref>{{cite web | |||
| | title=Finally answered! Which came first, the chicken or the egg? | |||
| | url=https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/finally-answered-which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg | |||
| | first=Melissa | |||
| | last=Breyer | |||
| | date=2013-02-11 | |||
| | website=] | |||
| | accessdate=2017-07-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | |||
| | title=Now You Know: Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? | |||
| | url=http://time.com/4475048/which-came-first-chicken-egg/ | |||
| | first=Merrill | |||
| | last=Fabry | |||
| | date=2016-09-21 | |||
| | website=] | |||
| | accessdate=2017-07-11}}</ref> Put more simply by ]: "Which came first: the chicken or the egg? The egg – laid by a bird that was not a chicken."<ref>{{cite web | |||
| | url=https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/296100559423954944 | |||
| | title=Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first the Chicken or the Egg? The Egg -- laid by a bird that was not a Chicken | |||
| | author=] | |||
| | date=2013-01-28 | |||
| | publisher=] | |||
| | accessdate=2017-07-11}}</ref> | |||
| For ], "The chicken is only an egg's way of making another egg." | |||
| ==Philosophical perspective== | |||
| Ancient philosophers were not aware of ]. ] (384–322 BC) was reportedly puzzled by the idea that there could be a first ] or egg and concluded that both the bird and egg must have always existed: | |||
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| If there has been a first man he must have been born without father or mother – which is repugnant to nature. For there could not have been a first egg to give a beginning to birds, or there should have been a first bird which gave a beginning to eggs; for a bird comes from an egg.<ref>{{cite book | |||
| | author=] | |||
| | title=Abrégé des vies des anciens philosophes: avec un recueil de leurs plus belles maximes | |||
| | location=Paris | |||
| | year=1726 | |||
| | page=314 | |||
| | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-oTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA314}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | |||
| | title=Lives of the ancient philosophers, with a life of the author | |||
| | author=] | |||
| | location=London | |||
| | year=1825 | |||
| | page=202 | |||
| | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tNkGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA202}}</ref> | |||
| </blockquote> | |||
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| ==See also== | |||
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| ==References== | |||
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Revision as of 09:30, 9 October 2017
The chicken or the egg causality dilemma is commonly stated as "which came first: the chicken or the egg?". The dilemma stems from the observation that all chickens hatch from eggs and all chicken eggs are laid by chickens. "Chicken-and-egg" is a metaphoric adjective describing situations where it is not clear which of two events should be considered the cause and which should be considered the effect
Scientific resolution
Although the question is typically used metaphorically, literal answers have been formulated for whether the chicken or egg came first.
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