Which Came First, the Chicken, Or the Egg?

By Nicolas, Grade 6

This riddle has been mostly unsolved until now, “Which came first, the chicken, or the egg?” But, I have multiple hypotheses that the egg came first. So, based off of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, It says that all life evolved from other life. Humans evolved from apes, or monkeys of some kind.

Even though I haven’t dug too much into Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, with some digging into plain evolution theory science, I found that the most likely ancestor for chickens is a group of dinosaurs called theropods. Theropods range from the bird-sized microraptor to the ginormous in comparison tyrannosaurus rex. Slowly over time, they evolved into almost chickens. The almost chicken found another almost chicken and they mated. The egg hatched into a basic idea of a chicken. Therefore, the egg came first, because the 2 mates that made the chicken weren’t completely chicken. That is why I made the article. To finally discuss and prove the answer to this riddle that has been unsolved for ages.

I then interviewed a bunch of people about the riddle and asked them to support their reasoning. Here are the results:

The results ended up being a tie with the chicken and the egg both having 5 people on their side. Of course, people reading it will know that the egg came first.