Easy. You mistakenly assume it to be a loop.
Each successive generation is subordinate to the one above it, extending infinitely in each direction. It's more like a telescope opening up over an infinite distance than a loop going round and round.
But which came first? You can pick and choose--as the generations extend infinitely far before and after, your chosen arbitrary reference point is the "first". Subordinate generations are 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. Master generations are 0th, negative 1th, negative 2nd, etc. Not that that is mathematically good form, I think.
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Actually, I suppose the "first" one would be the generation at negative infinity, if we say each generation starts with Haruhi.
It's really easy: you're just dealing with what is mathematically a recursive function, in particular one that nests a set within itself.
Anyway, I'll shut up now, since I'm only a calculus nerd, and I know comparitively next to nothing about set theory 
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Anyway, I'll shut up now, since I'm only a calculus nerd, and I know comparitively next to nothing about set theory
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Neither came first since Evolution is one smooth process which nothing really comes "first"
One organism acquires traits that enables it to survive better than it's predecessors. Then it passes said traits on to it's offspring, and so on and so forth, continuing on with each new trait. Now. The veloceraptors are the proven ancestors of the humble chicken. Technically the humble chicken hatched from a veloceraptor egg, therefore the egg came before the chicken due to the theory of evolution. A chicken mutated from a veloceraptor an survived long enough to pass it's genetic code down the eons to the bird we have today. That tasty tasty bird.
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