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It is an age-old riddle that has perplexed generations: <b>Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
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Now British scientists claim to have finally come up with the definitive answer: <b>The chicken.
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The scientific and philosophical mystery was purportedly unraveled by researchers at Sheffield and Warwick universities, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.
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<b>The scientists found that a protein found only in a chicken's ovaries is necessary for the formation of the egg</b>, according to the paper . The egg can therefore only exist if it has been created inside a chicken.<br />
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The discovery was revealed in the paper <a href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123506601/abstract">Structural Control Of Crystal Nuclei By An Eggshell Protein.</a> </div>