The "I never knew that" thread

[Ianofsmeg16]

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Loosely translated from a book i got for Xmas, but not much

If you're Expecting me to say there's no answer to that question, you are wrong. The Egg came first.
Most sicentists think that life on earth evolved, as do most people. Evolution is Basically the gradual development of life to suit it's surroundings. For example, a worm lives underground so it doesn't need very good eyes because there isn't much to see. So, any eyes worms once had have been lost from generation to generation. You can't change while you're alive, but your offspring can. As things gradually evolve they can change quite a bit. Have you ever seen pictures of what Anthropologists think our ancestors looked like? Big foreheads, lots of hair, long arms, slouched backs etc. We weren't really human then; we've gradually evolved to be as we are now.
The same has happened with the chicken,. If you go back in history, what we today call a chicken would have looked different. For example, it might have had webbed feet which made it hard to walk. Then, one day, one of the chickens laid an egg and from that egg came a bird that didn't have webbed feet - it was just like our present-day chickens. It had evolved.
But it all had to start with the egg, so the egg came first.

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