Sunday, October 18, 2015

Chicken - v - Egg: An Answer to the Age Old Question of 'Which Came First'

To start with, it depends on your school of thought: Creation or Evolution?

Creation School of Thought


God created all the animals and then they started reproducing. So of course the chicken came first.


Evolution School of Thought


Taken directly from http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/evo_02

The Definition

Biological evolution, simply put, is descent with modification. This definition encompasses small-scale evolution (changes in gene frequency in a population from one generation to the next).

I will stand corrected if I'm wrong, but my understanding of, "Changes in a population from one generation to the next" means each generation is slightly different from the one before. So, for any particular chicken, the egg comes first for each genetic generation.

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