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torsdag, juli 15, 2010

The Chicken Came First, Researchers Say

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British eggheads claim to have settled what the Daily Mail calls "the ultimate philosophical and scientific mystery": whether the chicken or the egg came first. Researchers from Sheffield and Warwick universities used a supercomputer called HECToR to "zoom in" on the structure of an eggshell and found that it contained a key protein that is found only in the ovaries of chickens. That means an egg can only exist if it's first been inside a chicken, which means chickens must predate eggs, the researchers say. "It had long been suspected that the egg came first but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first," said Dr. Colin Freeman, one of the study's authors. /The Daily Mail

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