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[alanjns06]

what came 1st the chicken or the egg

[sir.prize]

If you are NOT looking for a biological or scientific answer, looking through a dictionary from front to back, first? - the chicken comes before the egg!

[chimney]

does it actually matter?

What I want to know is, why did kamikaze pilots wear crash helmets?

[Quizmonster]

Most scientists believe that birds developed from reptiles. Since most reptiles to this day reproduce by laying eggs, it's rational to assume that the first bird-like creature came from an egg, too. (Genetic material remains constant throughout life, so the first creature that evolved into what we would consider to be a bird must have originally existed as an embryo inside an egg.) It would then have laid eggs and - over millions of years, perhaps - birds as we know them slowly developed and produced different species. The present-day chicken is one of these, but - 'way back when - its great-great-grand-daddy almost certainly came from an egg.
The egg pre-dated the bird, if you believe in evolution. Of course, fundamentalist believers in the Bible will say that God created all the creatures as creatures. In that case, the bird pre-dated the egg. Take your pick!

[Aquagility]

Following on from there, Quizmonster, did Eve have a navel?

[Quizmonster]

Again, Aquagility, it depends upon whether you tend towards the biblical or evolutionary models! Clearly, the Bible states that Eve was created by God using one of Adam's rib-bones. Thus, she did not come from anyone's womb and so had no umbilicus or, consequently, navel. On the other hand, if she was the first creature to be recognisably a human female as opposed to our apelike predecessors, she had clearly been "born" and not just "made". In that case, she would have had a navel. Once more...take your pick.

[zimzam]

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