what comes first the egg or the chicken
Chicken or the egg If the question refers to eggs in general, the egg came first, as the first egg-laying animals evolved millions of years prior to birds.[1] If the question refers to chicken eggs specifically, the answer is again the egg, but the explanation is more complicated. An animal nearly identical to the modern chicken (i.e., a proto-chicken) laid a fertilized egg that had DNA identical to the modern chicken (due to mutations in the mother's ovum, the father's sperm, or the fertilised zygote).[2][3] Put more simply by Neil deGrasse Tyson: "Which came first: the chicken or the egg? The egg â€“ laid by a bird that was not a chicken."[4] For Richard Dawkins, "The chicken is only an egg's way of making another egg."
Easter egg The practice of decorating eggshells as part of spring rituals is ancient,[11] with decorated, engraved ostrich eggs found in Africa which are 60,000 years old.[12] In the pre-dynastic period of Egypt and the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete, eggs were associated with death and rebirth, as well as with kingship, with decorated ostrich eggs, and representations of ostrich eggs in gold and silver, were commonly placed in graves of the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians as early as 5,000 years ago.[13] These cultural relationships may have influenced early Christian and Islamic cultures in those areas, as well as through mercantile, religious, and political links from those areas around the Mediterranean.[10]