Day or night?
Facebook or twitter?
WhatsApp Stories or Snapchat?
Oh, I guess we know that already.
But seriously though, what came first? Chicken? Egg, no chicken, no egg, no chicken. Even though mostly, chicken or egg is asked metaphorically, and is intended to put the receiver in a dilemma, scientific answers have been developed for it. It is considered to work under the spell of evolution.
What is evolution?
Evolution is technically defined as, “The gradual process in which organisms develop in something better or something more complex.” The developed structure, fights the harsh environments, survival difficulties, temperature changes, oxygen level changes better. It is through which we developed our eyes sight. Evolution is however, not random and works under a criterion called as ‘natural selections.’ Natural selection could be perfectly defined as the survival of the fittest, the unfit species, dies off.
But chicken or egg?
Well, what you ordered will come first. This had to come, what did you expect? Anyways, the answer is egg. How? An animal quite similar to the now chicken, laid an egg. The egg had a DNA that led to the birth of the modern chicken. In the egg, the fetus underwent mutation, because natural selection had already developed its DNA, what was the best for the bird, stayed; and what it should have, developed. So, the not so chicken, or as scientist call it, the proto-chicken, gave birth to a chicken. The egg came first.
But it is not a chicken egg!
Though, the egg, gave birth to a chicken it was not laid by a chicken. It was laid by the proto-chicken. The bird that quite looks like the chicken, and now do we call it a chicken egg because it gave birth to a chicken, or we do not call it a chicken egg because it was not laid by a chicken. The egg does not belong to the parent, the egg belongs to the fetus. It is thus, a chicken egg.
The off spring was hence, a failure. A disgrace to the parents, the failure however, turned out to be among the birds with most population and the most common domestic bird. We could have solved the mystery much earlier if omelet was in practice earlier, and then the chicken was never born, or might be it would still pop out of nowhere.
In conclusion, “The egg came first, from a bird that was not chicken” – Neil deGrasse Tyson.
So, the next time someone asks, What came first – Chicken or egg? The egg.
P.S. When the chicken was born, it crossed the road. Making us suffer under the mystery of why did the chicken cross the road?
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