Comment on Was there ever a solid or scientific answers to which came first chicken or the egg?
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 week agoOkay, 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 1 week 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.