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

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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.

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