Comment on Was there ever a solid or scientific answers to which came first chicken or the egg?

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What’s your point? Unfertilized eggs don’t hatch, so they’re not part of the scenario in question.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What’s your point? Literal, and wrong, quote from you…

      The egg is already the new offspring.

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      • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        A for enthusiasm, F for reading comprehension…

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      • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        A quote isn’t “literal” if you insert a word that completely negates its meaning.

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      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        when it’s fertilized.

        You seem to have missed that part.

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