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News: July/August 2006

Ancient Philosophical Question Answered • Voltaire Worth 5 Joyces • Philosophy TV on net • Torture Doesn’t Work • Apes To Have Rights? — News reports by Sue Roberts in London and John Ruddy in New York

Chicken, Egg, Egg, Chicken

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? A scientist, a philosopher, and a chicken farmer got together in London and decided: the egg.

The group claims the first bird that evolved into a modern chicken had to have been a chicken embryo first. The philosopher said people were mistaken to think the ‘parents’ of the first chicken egg had to be a genetically bona-fide chicken in order to lay a chicken egg. A genetic mutation inside the egg would have created a chicken before a chicken had laid the chicken egg.

This decidedly easy answer is getting media attention due to the ‘controversial’ debate over evolution.

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