So if this is correct, chickens were first discovered around 4000 years ago. But how about eggs. As you know, more animals lay eggs other than chickens. Dinosaurs are one of the oldest known animal to lay eggs, which dates back to more than 240 Million years back
InvadedLands
Voltage
But there is even more. Dinosaurs are the obvious answer. See how I said " Dinosaurs are one of the oldest known animals to lay eggs ", not "Dinosaurs are the oldest known animals to lay eggs". Specials who lived during the Cambrian explosion used eggs as well, which was about 540 million years ago.
Voltage
Assuming you meant bird eggs though, the oldest bird from a bird is from a species of bird called Archaeopteryx. The idea of an egg was created way before a chicken
Voltage
Even when you assume the egg he states was referring to a chicken egg, not an egg, the egg still comes first, due to evolution. As most know, chickens evolved from dinosaurs, and they would slowly evolve into chickens. The dinosaurs wouldn't evolve to much while they were alive, the difference would be in the genes when they are being "created".
Voltage
A dinosaur wouldn't get any closer to being a chicken, its just that dinosaurs child would be more chicken than the parent. Slowly an "almost chicken" would lay an egg that a chicken would hatch from, a chicken egg. The only way the chicken came first is if the egg was the "egg" you are referring to is the egg that was laid from a chicken.
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@Z_Voltage too long didn’t read lol happy for you or sorry that happened
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System64
My theory is different for two reasons:
1) Voltage assumes the "egg" in the question to be any egg, while I assume it to be only chicken egg;
2) Voltage cheated and googled the question smh.
1) Voltage assumes the "egg" in the question to be any egg, while I assume it to be only chicken egg;
2) Voltage cheated and googled the question smh.
System64
My theory:
We cannot clearly trace back when exactly the chicken became what we consider it today; the chicken is the result of multiple genetic modifications that resulted in what we know today. But the chicken changes quickly; while a 1900 chicken weighted 0.8 kilograms, a 2010 chicken weights about 4.5 kilograms.
We cannot clearly trace back when exactly the chicken became what we consider it today; the chicken is the result of multiple genetic modifications that resulted in what we know today. But the chicken changes quickly; while a 1900 chicken weighted 0.8 kilograms, a 2010 chicken weights about 4.5 kilograms.
System64
With this being said, if it was possible to analyze the DNA of every single ancestor of the chicken, and if it was possible to identify the exact generation with the mutation that makes the ancestor become a chicken, then the egg would've come first, as it would be the first to have carried said mutation and would've existed before the new chicken was born.
System64
tl;dr it's the egg but not for Z_Voltage's theory as it is based off of different assumptions
System64
no my theory disproves that
Voltage
I only searched for how long ago, but I knew the rest like Cambrian Explosion from biology class last year.
System64
your theory is based on the assumption of the egg being considered as any volatile's egg tho, which defeats the implied meaning of the puzzle
According to studies by Penn State, "Domestication of the chicken dates back to at least 2000 B.C. and their ancestry can be traced back to four species of wild jungle fowl from Southeast Asia".