Chicken egg question solved: Why the egg came before the chicken.
August 17th 2009 12:55
After countless years of debates, theories, and experimentation dating back to Aristotle’s time; scientists have finally come up with proof that the egg did in fact come before the chicken.
Researchers from Nottingham and London reached this same conclusion shortly after analyzing prior data and comparing it with modern records. A genetics researcher at the University of Nottingham told the press, "The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into. "
"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg. So, I would conclude that the egg came first."
However their theory resides on the fact that the organism which laid the egg could not be considered a chicken, since the chicken egg had to have been the result of a genetic mutation.
Professor David Papineau of London said, "If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."
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Where does an egg get it's dna from? From the 'parent' of course.
So how could a kangaroo lay an egg containing emu dna when a kangaroo doesn't possess dna of an emu in the first place?!
Comment by Anonymous
Where does an egg get it's dna from? From the 'parent' of course.
So how could a kangaroo lay an egg containing emu dna when a kangaroo doesn't possess dna of an emu in the first place?!
Comment by Anonymous
Where does an egg get it's dna from? From the 'parent' of course.
So how could a kangaroo lay an egg containing emu dna when a kangaroo doesn't possess dna of an emu in the first place?!