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Which Came First, The Chicken or The Egg?
The seeming paradox as to whether the chicken (Gallus domesticus) or the egg (Gallus
prezygoticos) first emerged in evolutionary history has become a metaphor for a
circumstance or a condition in which no clear causal or temporal order can be determined.
In 2002, Yale University held a conference entitled:
THE CHICKEN: Its Biological, Social, Cultural, and Industrial History from Neolithic
Middens to McNugets.
www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies/chicken/description.html
Randy Garner gave this presentation: and answered once and for all the age-old question:
Which Came First, The Chicken or The Egg? A Foul Metaphor for Teaching Randy Garner
Sam Houston State University
http://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/content/issue5_2/04_garner.html
Radical Pedagogy (2003) ISSN: 1524-6345