Which came first chicken or the egg ? Scientists have the answer!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> It is an age-old riddle that has perplexed generations: <b>Which came first, the chicken or the egg? </b><br /> <br /> Now British scientists claim to have finally come up with the definitive answer: <b>The chicken. </b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWAUsuy79Apodgs4A4jgHqYYXGgSu3t9MbJy83ADZQYCvQBuDp863HN0xI14UqQvHIIIK-UrUPCL_rxEf2ZlsDsEGmLZsXbGyEIvkdVE8lO6nndDzgHZQTQ16e1sJvp8Zdq0CnKzjcA1y_/s1600/chickenoregg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWAUsuy79Apodgs4A4jgHqYYXGgSu3t9MbJy83ADZQYCvQBuDp863HN0xI14UqQvHIIIK-UrUPCL_rxEf2ZlsDsEGmLZsXbGyEIvkdVE8lO6nndDzgHZQTQ16e1sJvp8Zdq0CnKzjcA1y_/s1600/chickenoregg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNhWVMr4u5yxO-eGpzWKEP5KScqmbi6LDSZfiWvvaPBDVBZeXU1i2_BicMTcv1dceXqRV-MZAwJWzzhE1kZK7DxoxRi6LDBe29eznKfYaGXy5iV-pU_KOlgGMsO6ghRvF2YMTz7x04TTnE/s1600/chickenoregg2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div> The scientific and philosophical mystery was purportedly unraveled by researchers at Sheffield and Warwick universities, according to the Daily Mail newspaper. <br /> <br /> <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 /> <br /> 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>

Which came first chicken or the egg ? Scientists have the answer!

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It is an age-old riddle that has perplexed generations: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Now British scientists claim to have finally come up with the definitive answer: The chicken. The scientific and philosophical mystery was purportedly … Read more »

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