No one really knows. The egg had to be laid by something (hen), but the hen had to be hatched from something (egg.
The hen's egg came first because other animals layed the egg!!!!
Hen
The egg came first. Eggs have been laid by animals for hundreds of millions of years, while chickens, as we know them today, evolved from non-chicken ancestors through a gradual process of change.
"Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" is a famous riddle that has no answer.
No one really knows. The egg had to be laid by something (hen), but the hen had to be hatched from something (egg.
The egg came first as the female bird which laid it might not neccessarily have been a hen, the hen which hatched from the egg could have been the result of cross breeding.
The hen came first - the formation of egg shells relies on protein found only in a hen's ovaries. Therefore an egg can only exist if it has been inside a hen.
Based on evolutionary theory, the egg came first.
The answer is the egg. The first chicken would have evolved from a prehistoric bird species, and that bird would have laid eggs containing genetic mutations that eventually led to the first true chicken.
Clearly the egg came before the chicken. Inverts, fish, amphibians and dinosaurs were laying eggs long before the first hen existed. And the first hen certainly came from an egg. But, did it come from a "chicken" egg? But i ate the egg Well, that is one theory but who said the hen originally came from an egg? maybe a cross-breed situation occured between two mammals and they gave birth to a hen of somesort then the hen laid an egg. but once again what about the male?
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There is more chance of egg because it is a cell. ________________ The way that you have asked the question leads necessarily to the conclusion that the hen existed before its egg existed, if you are talking about an egg laid by the hen. It leads necessarily to the conclusion that the egg existed first if you are talking about the egg from which this hen developed. You have only to clarify which egg you are talking about, and the conclusion becomes unambiguous. This is different from the classic "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"