Week 5: Chicken and Egg Question Answered

I would have to agree, with our distinguished panel of guests, that the egg itself would have had to precede the adult chicken. As we have seen with our other studies into the process of evolution, many species have gone through various genetic mutations and changes along the way in their development. However, there comes a time when the organism no longer interbreeds with the species of origin, but in fact goes through a process of speciation, based on random chance and natural selection. It is at this moment, with the solidification of that particular gene pattern in the DNA, that the next generation contained in that egg, evolved into what we now know today to be the species: chicken.