'The chicken came first, not the egg', scientists prove | Me

[accadacca]

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/13/article-1279048235052-0A49AD2E000005DC-756572_304x156.jpg
metro.co.uk - Eggs came after chickens... and that's a fact

But now they believe they have cracked the conundrum of what came first: the chicken or the egg.

British researchers say the chicken must have come first as the formation of eggs is only possible thanks to a protein found in the chicken

[tanya]

:wink: Love science!

[Cirrus2000]

Chickens, eggs, this is no way to report on science (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/07/chickens_eggs_this_is_no_way_t.php)

[QUOTE="P.Z. Myers"]
Bleh. MSNBC is running a terrible article that claims they have "proof" that chickens came before eggs. It's just an awful mess, and one of the scientists is at least partly responsible.

[INDENT][QUOTE]The scientists found that a protein found only in a chicken's ovaries is necessary for the formation of the egg, according to the paper Wednesday. The egg can therefore only exist if it has been created inside a chicken.

[accadacca]

The study sounds pretty conclusive to me. :haha:

[ddavis]

Jerry Coyne says almost the same thing at his blog:

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/godawful-science-reporting-msnbc-says-the-chicken-came-before-the-egg/
[QUOTE]
UPDATE: Two minutes ago, on the NBC Evening News, Brian Williams reported this finding, also claiming that it proves the precedence of the chicken.

[B]Crikey, I

[denaliguide]

i can't even begin to count how many nights i lay awake, unable to fall asleep, wondering about this very question. finally someone has figured it all out. now i will be able to get the sleep i need. :clap::clap::clap:

[Don]

Thanks for the link Kev. I was wondering WTF.

[R]

And the airline threw the gay cat in the red hat off the plane why again? I'm confused.

[Sombeech]

I'm just glad it wasn't our tax dollars hard at work on this one. :roflol:

[snccoulter]

Oh you know we supported it in some way or another.