I ate two fried unfertilized eggs just a few hours ago.
Unfertilized eggs literally never create offspring.
Maybe take a sex-ed class?
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 months agoNo, but the fallacy is in thinking the new species appears when the egg hatches, rather than when it’s fertilized. The egg is already the new offspring.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s your point? Unfertilized eggs don’t hatch, so they’re not part of the scenario in question.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s your point? Literal, and wrong, quote from you…
The egg is already the new offspring.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A for enthusiasm, F for reading comprehension…
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A quote isn’t “literal” if you insert a word that completely negates its meaning.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
when it’s fertilized.
You seem to have missed that part.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Okay, let’s back it up a bit…
Unfertilized eggs do not create offspring. They either create menstrual blood/waste, or breakfast food, depending on the type of creature, mammal or non-mammal.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Every egg that hatches was previously fertilized (at least for sexually-reproducing organisms). The animal that hatches from the fertilized egg became a genetically distinct organism when its egg was fertilized, not when the egg was hatched or laid.
In the case of chickens, eggs are fertilized before being laid; when we talk about “unfertilized eggs”, we usually mean eggs that were not fertilized before being laid. Such eggs were not part of the discussion until you introduced them.